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ArticlePreventive medicine reports2017

Smokers' BMI and perceived health: Does the order of questions matter?

Matthew C Rousu, Richard O'Connor, Maansi Bansal-Travers

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew C RousuSusquehanna University, 311 Apfelbaum Hall, Selinsgrove, PA 17870, United States.
Richard O'ConnorRoswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, United States.
Maansi Bansal-TraversRoswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, United States.
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · USSusquehanna University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We surveyed 431 daily smokers between November 2014 and March 2015 to examine the impact of the order of questions on the response to a self-reported health question as part of a larger experimental study. We randomized the question order, with some respondents providing their weight prior to self-reporting their health, while others did the opposite. We found that self-reported health outcomes are worse when smokers are first asked to report their weight. However, the order of questions only seems to impact those who are overweight as we did not find evidence that the order of questions affected responses for those with a BMI below 25. These findings suggest that the order of asking self-rated health and weight questions appears to matter, at least for overweight current smokers.

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BMIFramingObesityOverweightPrimingSmokers

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PMID27990341
PMCPMC5157880
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