Trial reportAmerican journal of epidemiology2009
The effect of question order on self-rated general health status in a multilingual survey context.
Trial report in American journal of epidemiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Abrupt peaks in perceived risk of occasional drug use after changing the question order in a repeated self-administered survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Heterogeneity in the Association of Citizenship Status on Self-Rated Health Among Asians in California.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Korean Elite Athletes: Current Status and Future Implications.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Article
- Improving the Quality of Evaluation Data in Simulation-Based Healthcare Improvement Projects: A Practitioner's Guide to Choosing and Using Published Measurement Tools.Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare · 2020Article
- Risk selection into supplemental private health insurance in China.Health economics review · 2019Article
- Comparison of estimates and time series stability of Korea Community Health Survey and Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Epidemiology and health · 2019Article
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- The effects of response option order and question order on self-rated health.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2015Article
- Towards a minimal generic set of domains of functioning and health.BMC public health · 2014Article
- Question context and priming meaning of health: effect on differences in self-rated health between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Advancing research on racial-ethnic health disparities: improving measurement equivalence in studies with diverse samples.Frontiers in public health · 2014Review
- Lee and Schwarz respond.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Contributors to self-reported health in a racially and ethnically diverse population: focus on Hispanics.Annals of epidemiology · 2013Article
- Measuring self-reported health in low-income countries: piloting three instruments in semi-rural Burkina Faso.Global health action · 2012Article
- The impact of misclassification due to survey response fatigue on estimation and identifiability of treatment effects.Statistics in medicine · 2011Article
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Abstract
Current practices recommend placing a self-rated health question before specific health items in survey questionnaires to minimize potential order effects. Because this recommendation is based on data collected in English, its applicability to other languages is unknown. This study examines whether there is an order effect associated with self-rated health for interviews conducted in English and Spanish languages. An experiment was conducted by using the 2007 California Health Interview Survey, where questions on self-rated health were inserted in 1 of 2 locations: preceding and following question items on specific chronic conditions. Respondents were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 versions of the locations by the split-half method. Although no order effect was present in the English interviews, the authors found a significant and large effect with Spanish interviews: Self-rated health appeared much worse when asked before chronic conditions than when asked after them. This order effect was larger among females than males. Order effects for self-rated health differ by interview language; inferences about the health status of Spanish-speaking populations (and potentially Latinos) depend on question order. If maintaining comparability is important, the authors' finding contradicts current recommendations, as inserting the self-rated health question before specific questions led to larger differences in health status between English and Spanish speakers.
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