Maximising follow-up participation rates in a large scale 45 and Up Study in Australia
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Maximising follow-up participation rates in a large scale 45 and Up Study in Australia.
BACKGROUND The issue of poor response rates to population surveys has existed for some decades, but few studies have explored methods to improve the response rate in follow-up population cohort studies. METHODS A sample of 100,000 adults from the 45 and Up Study, a large population cohort in Australia, were followed up 3.5 years after the baseline cohort was assembled. A pilot mail-out of 500...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1742-7622
DOI: 10.1186/s12982-016-0046-y