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Measuring AIDS-related behaviors in older populations
Author(s)	James N Gribble, Susan M Rogers, Heather G Miller
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 20, no 6, November 1998
Pages	pp 798-821
Keywords	AIDS ; Age groups [elderly] ; Tobacco smoking ; Alcoholism ; Research ; Methodology ; United States of America.
Annotation	Because of the scarcity of research on reporting biases in the measurement of HIV-related sexual and drug use behaviours in older populations, it is frequently assumed that methodological findings of research conducted with younger populations will generalise to older respondents. In this study, estimates of the effect of the experimental manipulation of interview mode (interviewer-administered versus self-administered) were derived separately for three age strata: 12-49, 50-64, and 65 and over. results of these analyses indicate that there were a number of noteworthy reversals in which interviewer-administered questioning in the older age strata produced higher estimates of the prevalence of substance use or alcohol-related problem behaviours. These results suggest that caution should be exercised in making generalisations from studies of reporting bias for HIV-related behaviours to older populations. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-981116409 A
Classmark	CQTT: BB: ETT: ETA: 3A: 3D: 7T
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