Random sample community-based health surveys: does the effort to reach participants matter?
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Random sample community-based health surveys: does the effort to reach participants matter?
OBJECTIVES Conducting health surveys with community-based random samples are essential to capture an otherwise unreachable population, but these surveys can be biased if the effort to reach participants is insufficient. This study determines the desirable amount of effort to minimise such bias. DESIGN A household-based health survey with random sampling and face-to-face interviews. Up to 11 v...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2044-6055,2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005791