SynthesisThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2024
Cognitive Functioning and the Quality of Survey Responses: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of 10 Epidemiological Studies of Aging.
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- Low-burden AI approach for cross-national early identification of cognitive impairment using real-world questionnaire response behaviours.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Changes in attitudes toward hearing loss and hearing aids and their association with hearing‑aid abandonment among experienced older adults hearing‑aid users.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- There Is No Place Like Home: The Impact of Public Home-Based Care on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Older People.Health economics · 2025Article
- Early Identification of Cognitive Impairment in Community Environments Through Modeling Subtle Inconsistencies in Questionnaire Responses: Machine Learning Model Development and Validation.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
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objectivesSelf-reported survey data are essential for monitoring the health and well-being of the population as it ages. For studies of aging to provide precise and unbiased results, it is necessary that the self-reported information meets high psychometric standards. In this study, we examined whether the quality of survey responses in panel studies of aging depends on respondents' cognitive abilities.
methodsOver 17 million survey responses from 157,844 participants aged 50 years and older in 10 epidemiological studies of aging were analyzed. We derived 6 common statistical indicators of response quality from each participant's data and estimated the correlations with participants' cognitive test scores at each study wave. Effect sizes (correlations) were synthesized across studies, cognitive tests, and waves using individual participant data meta-analysis methods.
resultsRespondents with lower cognitive scores showed significantly more missing item responses (overall effect size ρ^ = -0.144), random measurement error (ρ^ = -0.192), Guttman errors (ρ^ = -0.233), multivariate outliers (ρ^ = -0.254), and acquiescent responses (ρ^ = -0.078); the overall effect for extreme responses (ρ^ = -0.045) was not significant. Effect sizes were consistent across studies, modes of survey administsration, and different cognitive functioning domains, although some cognitive domain specificity was also observed. DISCUSSION: Lower-quality responses among respondents with lower cognitive abilities add random and systematic errors to survey measures, reducing the reliability, validity, and reproducibility of survey study results in aging research.
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