Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans

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Landrine, Hope; Corral, Irma; Simms, Denise Adams; Roesch, Scott C.; Pichon, Latrice C.; Ake, Diane; Villodas, Feion
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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.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5848
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 smoking; blacks; telephone health surveys; methodology 
Date
2013-09
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Landrine, Hope, & Corral, Irma, & Simms, Denise Adams, & Roesch, Scott C., & Pichon, Latrice C., & Ake, Diane, & Villodas, Feion. (September 2013). Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans. Frontiers in Public Health, (1-8. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5848

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Landrine, Hope, and Corral, Irma, and Simms, Denise Adams, and Roesch, Scott C., and Pichon, Latrice C., and Ake, Diane, and Villodas, Feion. "Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans". Frontiers in Public Health. . (1-8.), September 2013. August 17, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5848.
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Landrine, Hope and Corral, Irma and Simms, Denise Adams and Roesch, Scott C. and Pichon, Latrice C. and Ake, Diane and Villodas, Feion, "Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans," Frontiers in Public Health 1, no. (September 2013), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5848 (accessed August 17, 2022).
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Landrine, Hope, Corral, Irma, Simms, Denise Adams, Roesch, Scott C., Pichon, Latrice C., Ake, Diane, Villodas, Feion. Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans. Frontiers in Public Health. September 2013; 1() 1-8. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5848. Accessed August 17, 2022.
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