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Abstract
Surveys by personal interview are often assumed to be superior to those conducted by mail questionnaire. An experimental study of experiences and attitudes of 800 newly delivered mothers revealed surprising advantages to postal surveys: they are cheaper, more easily repeatable, and minimize interviewer effects. While response rates differed, the quality of responses was similar, except between middle- and working-class mothers. Postal surveys can be used with considerable assurance in national studies of fairly intimate experiences of pregnancy and delivery.Entities:
Keywords: Behavior; Comparative Studies; Data Collection; Delivery Of Health Care; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; England; Europe; Evaluation; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Health; Health Services; Health Services Evaluation; Interviews; Low Income Population; Maternal Health Services; Maternal-child Health Services; Middle Income Population; Mothers; Northern Europe; Organization And Administration; Parents; Postpartum Women; Primary Health Care; Program Acceptability; Program Evaluation; Programs; Psychological Factors; Puerperium; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Research Report; Sampling Studies; Satisfaction; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Studies; Surveys; United Kingdom
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Year: 1988 PMID： 3173261
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Milbank Q ISSN： 0887-378X Impact factor: 4.911