Minimizing Error Variance Introduced By Missing Data Routines in Survey Analysis

Hertel, Bradley R.

doi:10.1177/004912417600400404

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“…In order to reduce error due to missing data, respondents who had not completed at least 85% of the survey were removed from the sample. 36 Descriptive statistics were used to determine demographic breakdown of the survey sample and the prevalence of types of work-related stress and posttraumatic stress. Ordinary least squares (OLS) linear regression was used to determine the relative influence of different stressors on posttraumatic stress.…”

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Predictors of posttraumatic stress and preferred sources of social support among Canadian paramedics

Donnelly

Bradford

Davis

et al. 2015

CJEM

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Objective: Emergency medical service (EMS) providers are exposed to a variety of stressors endemic to the profession. These exposures may contribute to stress reactions, including posttraumatic stress. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between work-related stressors and posttraumatic stress. The secondary objective was to determine paramedics' preferred sources of support for managing work-related stress. Methods: 269 paramedics in a county-based EMS service were invited to complete an online survey. Respondents reported their demographic characteristics, levels of chronic stress, critical incident stress, posttraumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS), and preferred sources of support for managing work-related stress.

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Predictors of posttraumatic stress and preferred sources of social support among Canadian paramedics

Donnelly

Bradford

Davis

et al. 2015

CJEM

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“…The second domain was conceptualized as integration in family and friends and was constructed with four items: how often the respondent attends family functions; how often he or she sees relatives; number of people he or she knows well enough to visit; and whether the respondent sees family and friends enough. Missing data in small proportions on the social integration indicators were recoded to the mean for respondents from each country (Hertel, 1976).…”

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Financial Strain, Social Relations, and Psychological Distress Among Older People: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Ferraro

1999

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Objectives. This article examines how financial strain and social relations may independently and jointly influence psychological distress among older people in four nations.Methods. Data from four Western Pacific nations (N = 3,277) are used to test additive and multiplicative models of the relationships between financial strain, social relations, and psychological distress.Results. Financial strain is associated with higher levels of psychological distress in three of the four nations. Interactive models of the effects of financial strain and social relations on distress were uncovered in three of the four nations, but the type of social relation influencing the strain-distress relationship varied. Subjective health and IADLs were significant predictors of psychological distress in all four nations.Discussion. Findings suggest that although financial strain is quite likely to lead to psychological distress among elders, this can be mitigated, at least in part, by social relationships. Modernization was not associated with higher psychological distress.

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“…Within each analysis, missing data were handled by listwise deletion. 14 Descriptive statistics for the sample are provided in Table 1.…”

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Body mass index and all-cause mortality among people age 70 and over: the Longitudinal Study of Aging

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OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI; kgam 2 ) and mortality in a large nationally representative sample of US adults over age 70 years. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal cohort study, the Longitudinal Study of Aging (LSOA). Subjects were all those 7260 black and white people (2769 men, 4491 women) initially interviewed in 1984 for whom height and weight were available. These subjects were followed through to 1990. MEASUREMENTS: Measurements included self-reported height and weight, date of death if subjects died, sex, age, race, measures of socio-economic status, number of living ®rst degree relatives, and responses to questions asking whether the subject had retired due to poor health, had dif®culty eating, worried about their health, and felt their health was worse than during the prior year. Smoking status was not assessed. RESULTS: When analyzed via Cox proportional hazard regression, the relationship between BMI and mortality, represented by means of hazard ratio, was clearly U-shaped for both men and women. The base of the curves was fairly wide suggesting that a broad range of BMIs are well tolerated by older adults. The minimum mortality (estimated from the ®tted proportional hazard models) occurred at a BMI of approximately 31.7 for women and 28.8 for men. The results were essentially unchanged, if analyses were weighted, if various disease states were controlled for, and if apparently unhealthy subjects were excluded. CONCLUSIONS: The ®nding of the relatively high BMI (27±30 for men, 30±35 for women) associated with minimum hazard in persons older than seventy years supports some previously documented ®ndings 1 and opposes others 2 and, if con®rmed in future research, has implications for public health and clinical recommendations.

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Minimizing Error Variance Introduced By Missing Data Routines in Survey Analysis

Cited by 127 publications

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Predictors of posttraumatic stress and preferred sources of social support among Canadian paramedics

Predictors of posttraumatic stress and preferred sources of social support among Canadian paramedics

Financial Strain, Social Relations, and Psychological Distress Among Older People: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Body mass index and all-cause mortality among people age 70 and over: the Longitudinal Study of Aging

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