Effects of telephone versus face-to-face survey modes on reports of alcohol-related attitudes, harms and alcohol consumption.

Aims: To assess the effect of telephone vs. face-to-face interview modes on reports of alcohol-related attitudes, harms and alcohol consumption.Methods: Two simple random samples of persons aged 15–69 were drawn for the Finnish Drinking Habits Survey with sample sizes of 800 for the telephone interv...

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Publicado en:Journal of Substance Use Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 407 - 414
Autores principales: Huhtanen, Petri, Mustonen, Heli, Mäkelä, Pia
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2016
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Sumario:Aims: To assess the effect of telephone vs. face-to-face interview modes on reports of alcohol-related attitudes, harms and alcohol consumption.Methods: Two simple random samples of persons aged 15–69 were drawn for the Finnish Drinking Habits Survey with sample sizes of 800 for the telephone interviews and 3750 for the face-to-face interviews.Results: There was an estimated mode effect for the whole population in 4 out of 28 descriptive measures. They did not show a consistent pattern, but some support was found for a lower level of reported alcohol-related harm in telephone interviews than in face-to-face interviews. In the subgroup analysis, our results showed differences in 9 out of 68 comparisons. The most consistent ones of these differences were between the age groups.Conclusion: The results of the alcohol-related measures in the telephone interviews were reasonably well in line with the results of the face-to-face interviews.