Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
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Telephone Surveys Underestimate Cigarette Smoking among African-Americans
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 B...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00036