Surveys of sensitive topics, such as the Injury Control and Risk Surveys (ICARIS) or the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS), are often conducted by telephone using random-digit-dial (RDD) sampling methods. Although this method of data collection is relatively quick and inexpensive, it suffers from growing coverage problems and falling response rates. In this paper, several alte...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have examined the impact of global budget payment systems of health insurance on patient access to medical care. In order to monitor the population's accessibility to health services, a series of survey are often used to understand public perceptions of the health care provider. Taiwan implemented the single-payer National Health Insurance in 1995 and has been conduc...

The magnitude of the cultivation effect for perceptual estimates of social reality has been shown to be affected by a number of contextual factors such as source priming and motivation to process information during judgment construction, and these contextual factors have been linked to the use of heuristic processing strategies when constructing judgments of frequency and probability (L. J. Shr...

OBJECTIVE Population surveys constitute an essential tool to monitor mammography coverage and factors associated with its performance. Estimates tend to be overestimated in surveys based on the population living in households with a telephone. The study aimed to estimate mammography coverage from population-based surveys. METHODS Based on mammography coverage levels in women aged between 50 a...

For almost three decades telephone household surveys have increased in number and size. There has been a corresponding development of telephone sampling techniques that attempted to improve the cost effectiveness of telephone surveys. For example, the twostage RDD sampling devis ed by Mitofsky (1970) and revised by Waksberg (1978) provided nearly complete coverage of both listed and unlisted te...

BACKGROUND Telephone surveys have been used widely in public health research internationally and are being increasingly used in Ireland and the U.K. METHODS This study compared three telephone surveys conducted on the island of Ireland from 2000 to 2004, examining study methodology, outcome measures and the per unit cost of each completed survey. We critically examined these population-based ...