The aim of this analysis was to examine data from a general population sample for any retest effects in the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. A core panel was drawn from the British Household Panel Survey (n = 4749) of those who had completed the GHQ-12 seven times from 1991 to 1997. The panel results were compared with cross-sectional data from the Health Surveys for England for the same y...

The aim of this analysis was to examine data from a general population sample for any retest effects in the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. A core panel was drawn from the British Household Panel Survey (n = 4749) of those who had completed the GHQ-12 seven times from 1991 to 1997. The panel results were compared with cross-sectional data from the Health Surveys for England for the same y...

The Office of Communication at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention licenses syndicated market research data for understanding audiences in health communication planning. Market research data bases are widely used in the commercial sector to analyze audiences and develop messages to promote products and services to potential customers. They contain proprietary and public information o...

Surveys increasingly use mixed mode data collection (e.g., combining face-to-face and web) because this controls costs and helps to maintain good response rates. However, a combination of different survey modes in one study, be it cross-sectional or longitudinal, can lead to different kinds of measurement errors. For example, respondents in a face-to-face survey or a web survey may interpret th...

Too many wound care research studies are poorly designed, badly executed, and missing crucial data. The objective of this study is to create a series of principles for all stakeholders involved in clinical or comparative effectiveness research in wound healing. The Delphi approach was used to reach consensus, using a web-based survey for survey participants and face-to-face conferences for expe...

Panel studies in Western countries have transformed and greatly improved understanding of many social, economic and health trends, such as the British Panel Household Survey and the Whitehall study in the UK, and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. In New Zealand (NZ) there are a number of birth cohort and population-specific longitudinal studies: the Dunedin ...

This panel will survey the virtual world phenomena, introduce the governance issues that arise there and suggests why the digital government community can both contribute to virtual worlds’ success and benefit from the online laboratory these environments provide.