Benefits of extensive recruitment effort persist during follow-ups and are consistent across age group and survey method:The TRAILS study
Background: Extensive recruitment effort at baseline increases representativeness of study populations by decreasing non-response and associated bias. First, it is not known to what extent increased attrition occurs during subsequent measurement waves among subjects who were hard-to-recruit at baseline and what characteristics the hard-to-recruit dropouts have compared to the hard-to-recruit retainers. Second, it is unknown whether characteristics of hard-to-recruit responders in a prospective population based cohort study are similar across age group and survey method. Methods: First, we comp... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Nederhof , E , Jörg , F , Raven , D , Veenstra , R , Verhulst , F C , Ormel , J & Oldehinkel , T 2012 , ' Benefits of extensive recruitment effort persist during follow-ups and are consistent across age group and survey method : The TRAILS study ' , BMC Medical Research Methodology , vol. 12 , 93 . https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-93 |
Schlagwörter: | MENTAL-HEALTH / MULTIETHNIC COHORT / NONRESPONSE BIAS / PEER ACCEPTANCE / ANXIETY NESDA / DROP-OUT / ATTRITION / ADOLESCENTS / NETHERLANDS / BEHAVIOR |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29191434 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/7616961b-e504-4c52-992d-e8ec26a2d1f7 |
Background: Extensive recruitment effort at baseline increases representativeness of study populations by decreasing non-response and associated bias. First, it is not known to what extent increased attrition occurs during subsequent measurement waves among subjects who were hard-to-recruit at baseline and what characteristics the hard-to-recruit dropouts have compared to the hard-to-recruit retainers. Second, it is unknown whether characteristics of hard-to-recruit responders in a prospective population based cohort study are similar across age group and survey method. Methods: First, we compared first wave (T1) easy-to-recruit with hard-to-recruit responders of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS), a prospective population based cohort study of Dutch (pre) adolescents (at first wave: n = 2230, mean age = 11.09 (SD 0.56), 50.8% girls), with regard to response rates at subsequent measurement waves. Second, easy-to-recruit and hard-to-recruit participants at the fourth TRAILS measurement wave (n = 1881, mean age = 19.1 (SD 0.60), 52.3% girls) were compared with fourth wave non-responders and earlier stage drop-outs on family composition, socioeconomic position (SEP), intelligence (IQ), education, sociometric status, substance use, and psychopathology. Results: First, over 60% of the hard-to-recruit responders at the first wave were retained in the sample eight years later at the fourth measurement wave. Hard-to-recruit dropouts did not differ from hard-to-recruit retainers. Second, extensive recruitment efforts for the web based survey convinced a population of nineteen year olds with similar characteristics as the hard-to-recruit eleven year olds that were persuaded to participate in a school-based survey. Some characteristics associated with being hard-to-recruit (as compared to being easy-to-recruit) were more pronounced among non-responders, resembling the baseline situation (De Winter et al., 2005). Conclusions: First, extensive recruitment effort at the first assessment wave of a ...