Comparing internet and face-to-face surveys as methods for eliciting preferences for social care-related quality of life: evidence from England using the ASCOT service user measure.
Purpose: Traditionally, researchers have relied on eliciting preferences through face-to-face interviews. Recently, there has been a shift towards using internet-based methods. Different methods of data collection may be a source of variation in the results. In this study, we compare the preferences...
| Published in: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 28; no. 8; pp. 2207 - 2221 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=137419486&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 137419486 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09629343 GPQ jtl: Quality of Life Research issn: 09629343 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2019 vid: 28 iid: 8 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 137419486 137419486 NLM30945131 137419486 10.1007/s11136-019-02172-2 NLM30945131 137419486 ppf: 2207 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Comparing internet and face-to-face surveys as methods for eliciting preferences for social care-related quality of life: evidence from England using the ASCOT service user measure. aug: au: Saloniki, Eirini-Christina Malley, Juliette Burge, Peter Lu, Hui Batchelder, Laurie Linnosmaa, Ismo Trukeschitz, Birgit Forder, Julien affil: Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK sug: subj: Internet Patient Satisfaction Statistics and Numerical Data Data Collection Quality of Life Quality of Health Care Statistics and Numerical Data Outcome Assessment Methods Human Adolescence Adult Young Adult Male Female England Middle Age Aged Validation Studies Comparative Studies Evaluation Research Multicenter Studies Clinical Assessment Tools Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index Questionnaires Social Readjustment Rating Scale Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Purpose: Traditionally, researchers have relied on eliciting preferences through face-to-face interviews. Recently, there has been a shift towards using internet-based methods. Different methods of data collection may be a source of variation in the results. In this study, we compare the preferences for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) service user measure elicited using best-worst scaling (BWS) via a face-to-face interview and an online survey.Methods: Data were collected from a representative sample of the general population in England. The respondents (face-to-face: n = 500; online: n = 1001) completed a survey, which included the BWS experiment involving the ASCOT measure. Each respondent received eight best-worst scenarios and made four choices (best, second best, worst, second worst) in each scenario. Multinomial logit regressions were undertaken to analyse the data taking into account differences in the characteristics of the two samples and the repeated nature of the data.Results: We initially found a number of small significant differences in preferences between the two methods across all ASCOT domains. These differences were substantially reduced-from 15 to 5 out of 30 coefficients being different at the 5% level-and remained small in value after controlling for differences in observable and unobservable characteristics of the two samples.Conclusions: This comparison demonstrates that face-to-face and internet surveys may lead to fairly similar preferences for social care-related quality of life when differences in sample characteristics are controlled for. With or without a constant sampling frame, studies should carefully design the BWS exercise and provide similar levels of clarification to participants in each survey to minimise the amount of error variance in the choice process. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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