Influence of social desirability on symptom and mood reporting in a community survey.

Klassen, Deidre; Hornstra, Robijn K.; Anderson, Peter B.

doi:10.1037/h0076863

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“…It is worth noting that racial differences have been reported for the Social Desirability with Blacks having a signi®cantly greater mean values than Whites in a community based study in Kansas City (Klassen et al, 1975). In an analysis of the current study using only the Anglo women, the same factors were identi®ed as signi®cant predictors; and there was a signi®cant increase in the adjusted r 2 , but a decrease in signi®cance due to the smaller sample size.…”

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The association of energy intake bias with psychological scores of women

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Objective: Assess the association between reporting bias of dietary energy intake and the behavioral and psychological pro®les in women. Design: At baseline a series of questionnaires were administered to 37 women, (the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Weinberger Adjustment Inventory (WAI), the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), the Restraint Scale and Sorensen-Stunkard's silhouettes). Subjects received training on how to record dietary records. Subjects recorded three days of dietary records to measure energy intake (EI) during a study to determine total energy expenditure (TEE) using doubly labeled water. Reporting accuracy (RA EIaTEE 6 100) was determined for each subject. Statistical analysis of the data used a mixed effects model accounting for within subject variability to determine if the psychological scores were associated with reporting accuracy. Setting and subject: Women were recruited with local advertisements in Tucson, Arizona. The women had a mean ( AE 1 s.d.) age of 43.6 AE 9.3 yrs, body mass index (BMI) of 28.7 AE 8.5 kgam 2 and total body fat (%TBF) of 31.9 AE 7.3%. Results: Age and %TBF were signi®cantly and inversely associated with RA. Furthermore, Social Desirability was negatively associated with RA. Body dissatisfaction and associating a smaller body size than one's own as being more healthy were also associated with a lower RA. Conclusions: These results suggest that Social Desirability and self image of body shape are associated with RA. Modi®cations in subject training may reduce the effect of these factors on RA. Sponsorship: This project was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and

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“…On the other hand, realworld evidence would not be confounded by problems that can afflict face-to-face surveys, such as a temptation among respondents to answer a question in a way that others may view favorably. 13 Assuming that these early results bear up under the scrutiny of future research, it is instructive to look ahead to their policy implications. If patients care about long-term survival prospects, not just average survival, this suggests the need to incorporate long-term benefits as a unique consideration in health technology assessment for oncology treatment.…”

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How Cancer Patients Value Hope And The Implications For Cost-Effectiveness Assessments Of High-Cost Cancer Therapies

Lakdawalla

Romley

Sanchez³

et al. 2012

Health Affairs

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Assessments of the medical and economic value of therapies in diseases such as cancer traditionally focus on average or median gains in patients' survival. This focus ignores the value that patients may place on a therapy with a wider "spread" of outcomes that offer the potential of a longer period of survival. We call such treatments "hopeful gambles" and contrast them with "safe bets" that offer similar average survival but less chance of a large gain. Real-world therapy options do not have these stylized forms, but they can differ in the spread of survival gains that patients face. We found that 77 percent of surveyed cancer patients with melanoma, breast cancer, or other kinds of solid tumors preferred hopeful gambles to safe bets. This suggests that current technology assessments, which often determine access to such cancer therapies, may be missing an important source of value to patients and should either incorporate hope into the value of therapies or set a higher threshold for an acceptable cost-effectiveness ratio in the end-of-life context.

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“…However, it poses some problems that should be taken into account (GaIlagher at al., 1980;Kane & Kane, 1981;Klassen et al, 1975;Lawton et al, 1980;Montorio, 1990;Zarit et al, 1985). To resolve these problems, self-reports for the elderly should be modified or specially designed with the following formal characteristics: They should be short, easily understood, and appropriate in terms of the size of letters in the items and in terms of the elderly person's level of education; they should include relevant age-related items; and they should provide normative data on the elderly population (McNair, 1979).…”

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“…For example, one of the most frequent sources of error when using self-report in the elderly is social desirability (respondent's wish to present himself or herself in a favorable way; Klassen et al, 1975). Some aspects of the content of general depression self-reports could also raise problems, such as somatic complaints or health or death concerns, when applied to the elderly.…”

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The Geriatric Depression Scale: A Review of Its Development and Utility

Montorio

Izal

1996

Int. Psychogeriatr.

314

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ABSTRACT. This article reviews the significance of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) to practitioners and researchers in clinical gerontology, more than 10 years after the scale was introduced to the scientific community. This report summarizes findings from the most relevant validation studies in which this selfreport for assessing depression in elderly people has been tested. Included is discussion of the use of the GDS with specific populations (elderly medical inpatients, nursing home residents, and dementia populations), with description of the scale's psychometric properties and its utility when used with them. This article also provides data on the use of the GDS from more recent studies, including additional information on psychometric properties, influence of source bias, and the international dissemination of the GDS. We conclude that the GDS is a relevant self-report for the assessment of depression in the elderly, given its advantage over other self-reports that are not as easily administered to this age group, its utility in the detection of depression, and its adequate psychometric properties. However, the GDS does not maintain its validity in demented populations because it fails to identify depression in persons with mild to moderate dementia. Finally, some suggestions for future research are made.Depression in old age is a topic that has produced a great aniount of literature that has substantially contributed to the improvement of the assessment process. The ambiguity of the definition of depression in old age, its differentiation from other disorders (e.g., dementia), and the role that other related factors play in the diagnosis (e.g., medication intake) have been identified as common problems that should be investigated. Difficulties regarding assessment procedures are as important as those previously mentioned. There is a fair amount of literature about the influence of source bias on self-report. However, the self-report (meaning source of information: self rather than informant) is more traditional at measuring depression than other assessment procedures, because the characteristics of depression are largely subjective (e.g., dysphoric mood) (Rehni, 198 8).

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Influence of social desirability on symptom and mood reporting in a community survey.

Cited by 78 publications

References 26 publications

The association of energy intake bias with psychological scores of women

The association of energy intake bias with psychological scores of women

How Cancer Patients Value Hope And The Implications For Cost-Effectiveness Assessments Of High-Cost Cancer Therapies

The Geriatric Depression Scale: A Review of Its Development and Utility

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