Interviewing Versus Diary Keeping in Eliciting Information in a Morbidity Survey

Allen, George I.; Breslow, Lester; Weissman, Arthur; Nisselson, Harold

doi:10.2105/ajph.44.7.919

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“…Previous comparison of questionnaire use with home interviewing suggests that the information elicited by questionnaire is likely to be as reliable as that elicited by direct interview (14). While diary keeping shows a higher rate of symptoms than retrospective recall, this difference is least for illness interfering with daily activity or where a doctor was seen (15). Recollection of seeing a doctor seems to be as well elicited by inail a s by direct interview for at least a year afterwards (14).…”

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Recurrent abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori in a community‐based sample of London children

et al. 1996

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Helicobacter pylori is accepted as an important factor in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease. Infection is probably most commonly acquired in early life but there is still limited information on the prevalence or symptomatology of H. pylori infection in childhood. The aim of the present study was to establish the prevalence of H. pylori infection in a large sample of urban school children and to determine its relationship, if any, to a history of recurrent abdominal pain. Using a commercial ELISA significant levels of anti-H. pylori IgG antibody were detected in 107/640 (16.7%) of school children (M, 383; F, 257; mean age 9.15 years, range 4-13). No relationship was demonstrated between H. pylori seropositivity and a personal or family history of recurrent abdominal pain or the nature of the pain.

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Recurrent abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori in a community‐based sample of London children

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“…Such a phenomenon has been observed in morbidity surveys (6). It is therefore difficult to determine the validity of these estimates without medical records.…”

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Diagnostic and Therapeutic X-Radiation in an Urban Population

Lilienfeld¹

1959

Public Health Reports (1896-1970)

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“…Despite the widespread and diverse use of diaries in health research generally [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], prior methodological studies have focused only on the diary's ability to outperform inter views in the number of illness episodes re ported for a defined time period [23,24], The reliability of these enhanced data has been largely assumed not tested, with the exception of a study by Follick et al [25]. While the study subjects in that investigation -20 pa tients with disabling, chronic low back painare different from those examined here, the results are nonetheless informative.…”

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Reliability of Seizure Diaries in Adult Epileptic Patients

Neugebauer¹

1989

Neuroepidemiology

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Daily diaries are used widely in neurologic research and clinical practice to assess alterations in seizure frequency among patients with epilepsy. However, no formal tests of the reliability of this data collection method have been performed. We investigated the reliability of seizure recall in adult patients participating in a longitudinal study of stress, mood and seizure frequency. Patients maintained daily diaries for 10–36 weeks. The reliability study entailed completion of a single additional diary on the evening of a randomly selected day with reference to the preceding day. This design produced two diaries, completed 1 day apart, for the same 24-hour period. Measuring reliability with the Pearson correlation coefficient, overall reliability of seizure recall was 0.95 and was not markedly influenced by the subjects'' sociodemographic characteristics, neurological or psychological status. In sum, the assumption in the literature that the daily diary is a reliable method for securing data on seizure counts appears warranted.

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Interviewing Versus Diary Keeping in Eliciting Information in a Morbidity Survey

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Recurrent abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori in a community‐based sample of London children

Recurrent abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori in a community‐based sample of London children

Diagnostic and Therapeutic X-Radiation in an Urban Population

Reliability of Seizure Diaries in Adult Epileptic Patients

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