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How to improve the validity of sexual behaviour reporting: systematic review of questionnaire delivery modes in developing countries.
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119 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Increasing disclosure of school-related gender-based violence: lessons from a systematic review of data collection methods and existing survey research.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Comparison of the ACASI Mode to Other Survey Modes in Sexual Behavior Surveys in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Population sizes, HIV prevalence, and HIV prevention among men who paid for sex in sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2020): A meta-analysis of 87 population-based surveys.PLoS medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Are psychosocial interventions effective at increasing condom use among Black men? A systematic review.International journal of STD & AIDS · 2021Pooled it
- Increases in HIV Incidence Following Receptive Anal Intercourse Among Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions using social networking sites to promote contraception in women of reproductive age.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Does per-act HIV-1 transmission risk through anal sex vary by gender? An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2018Pooled it
- Systematic assessment of condom use measurement in evaluation of HIV prevention interventions: need for standardization of measures.AIDS and behavior · 2014Pooled it
- HIV prevention for adults with criminal justice involvement: a systematic review of HIV risk-reduction interventions in incarceration and community settings.American journal of public health · 2014Pooled it
- Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2011Pooled it
- The Impact of the Common Elements Treatment Approach on HIV Treatment Outcomes Among Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A Randomized Trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2026Trial
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- Effect of data-collection method on reporting of common mental disorder symptoms and intimate partner violence in Zimbabwe: a cluster-randomized trial.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Trial
- Longitudinal inconsistencies in women's self-reports of lifetime experience of physical and sexual IPV: evidence from the MAISHA trial and follow-on study in North-western Tanzania.BMC women's health · 2022Trial
- Interviewing adolescent girls about sexual and reproductive health: a qualitative study exploring how best to ask questions in structured follow-up interviews in a randomized controlled trial in Zambia.Reproductive health · 2022Trial
- Nonverbal Response Cards Reduce Socially Desirable Reporting of Violence Among Adolescents in Rural Burkina Faso: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Trial
- Factors Associated With Sex-Related Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Adherence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in New York City in HPTN 067.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Trial
- School Support as Structural HIV Prevention for Adolescent Orphans in Western Kenya.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Trial
- A School Support Intervention and Educational Outcomes Among Orphaned Adolescents: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Trial
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Abstract
objectivesTo systematically review comparative research from developing countries on the effects of questionnaire delivery mode.
methodsWe searched Medline, EMbase and PsychINFO and ISSTDR conference proceedings. Randomized control trials and quasi-experimental studies were included if they compared two or more questionnaire delivery modes, were conducted in a developing country, reported on sexual behaviours and occurred after 1980.
resultsA total of 28 articles reporting on 26 studies met the inclusion criteria. Heterogeneity of reported trial outcomes between studies made it inappropriate to combine trial outcomes. Eighteen studies compared audio computer-assisted survey instruments (ACASI) or its derivatives [personal digital assistant (PDA) or computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)] against another self-administered questionnaires, face-to-face interviews or random response technique. Despite wide variation in geography and populations sampled, there was strong evidence that computer-assisted interviews lowered item-response rates and raised rates of reporting sensitive behaviours. ACASI also improved data entry quality. A wide range of sexual behaviours were reported including vaginal, oral, anal and/or forced sex, age of sexual debut, condom use at first and/or last sex. Validation of self-reports using biomarkers was rare.
conclusionsThese data reaffirm that questionnaire delivery modes do affect self-reported sexual behaviours and that use of ACASI can significantly reduce reporting bias. Its acceptability and feasibility in developing country settings should encourage researchers to consider its use when conducting sexual health research. Triangulation of self-reported data using biomarkers is recommended. Standardizing sexual behaviour measures would allow for meta-analysis.
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