American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 141, No. 11: 1097-1106
Copyright © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Reproducibility of Responses to Telephone Interviews: Demographic Predictors of Discordance in Risk Factor Status
1Program in Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI.
2Chronic Disease Surveillance Program, Bureau of Health Statistics, Research and Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Boston, MA.
3Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University New York, NY.
Reprint requests to Dr. Aryeh D. Stein, Program in Epidemiology, College of Human Medicine, A-214 East Fee Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1316.
The reproducibility of responses to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire was examined across the demographic strata used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments for reporting prevalence estimates (specifically age, sex, income, employment, and marital status), as well as race/ethnicity, which has been previously examined. The authors administered the questionnaire twice, 21–94 days apart, to randomly selected residents of Massachusetts (response rates: first administration, 68% of eligible households; second administration, 68% of persons who completed the first interview). Initial interviews were conducted in March and October 1992. Among 448 respondents to both interviews, group mean distributions of seven demographic characteristics and 19 risk factors were highly consistent across the two interviews. Discordance in individual risk factor status ranged from 1.2% to 21.8%(median, 7.8%) and was symmetric in direction, i.e., as many respondents were considered at Increased risk on the basis of the first Interview and at low risk on the basis of the second interview as the reverse. Kappas ranged from 0.30 to 0.90 (median, 0.75). Education, household income, and interval between administrations were not associated with prevalence of discordance for any risk factor. Sex, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, and employment status were each predictive of variation in discordance for one or more risk factors, but no consistent effect of any individual demographic characteristic across risk factors was observed. The questionnaire has relatively uniform and generally good reproducibility across all demographic strata used for monitoring the Health Objectives for Year 2000 and other chronic disease surveillance activities. Am J Epidemiol 1995; 141:1097–1106.
behavior; data collection; demographics; reproducibility of results; risk factors
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