Telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among African-Americans
Author
Landrine, Hope; Corral, Irma; Adams Simms, Denise; Roesch, Scott C.; Pichon, Latrice C.; Ake, Diane; Villodas, Feion
Abstract
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.Conclusions. 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.
Date
2013-09-25
Citation:
APA:
Landrine, Hope, & Corral, Irma, & Adams Simms, Denise, & Roesch, Scott C., & Pichon, Latrice C., & Ake, Diane, & Villodas, Feion. (September 2013).
Telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among African-Americans.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7797
MLA:
Landrine, Hope, and Corral, Irma, and Adams Simms, Denise, and Roesch, Scott C., and Pichon, Latrice C., and Ake, Diane, and Villodas, Feion.
"Telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among African-Americans". .
. (),
September 2013.
September 23, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7797.
Chicago:
Landrine, Hope and Corral, Irma and Adams Simms, Denise and Roesch, Scott C. and Pichon, Latrice C. and Ake, Diane and Villodas, Feion,
"Telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among African-Americans," , no.
(September 2013),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7797 (accessed
September 23, 2023).
AMA:
Landrine, Hope, Corral, Irma, Adams Simms, Denise, Roesch, Scott C., Pichon, Latrice C., Ake, Diane, Villodas, Feion.
Telephone surveys underestimate cigarette smoking among African-Americans. .
September 2013;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7797. Accessed
September 23, 2023.
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