Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans

Background: This study tested the hypothesis that data from random digit-dial telephone surveys underestimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking among African-American adults. Method: A novel, community-sampling method was used to obtain a statewide, random sample of N = 2118 California (CA) Africa...

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Veröffentlicht: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859986/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350205
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00036
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Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
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description Background: This study tested the hypothesis that data from random digit-dial telephone surveys underestimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking among African-American adults. Method: A novel, community-sampling method was used to obtain a statewide, random sample of N = 2118 California (CA) African-American/Black adults, surveyed door-to-door. This Black community sample was compared to the Blacks in the CA Health Interview Survey (N = 2315), a statewide, random digit-dial telephone survey conducted simultaneously. Results: Smoking prevalence was significantly higher among community (33%) than among telephone survey (19%) Blacks, even after controlling for sample differences in demographics. Conclusion: Telephone surveys underestimate smoking among African-Americans and probably underestimate other health risk behaviors as well. Alternative methods are needed to obtain accurate data on African-American health behaviors and on the magnitude of racial disparities in them.
author_sort Landrine, Hope
title Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
title_short Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
title_full Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
title_fullStr Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
title_full_unstemmed Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
title_sort telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among african-americans
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publisher_facet Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2013
url https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859986/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350205
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2013.00036
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