OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of different modes of administration (face-to-face v. telephone), recall days (first v. second), days of the week (weekday v. weekend) and interview days (1 d later v. 2 d later) on bias in protein and K intakes collected with 24 h dietary recalls (24-HDR). DESIGN Two non-consecutive 24-HDR (collected with standardised EPIC-Soft software) were used to estimate...

Telephone interviews and postal surveys may be a resource-efficient way of assessing health-related quality-of-life post-stroke, if they produce data equivalent to face-to-face interviews. This study explored whether telephone interviews and postal surveys of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale (SAQOL-39g) yielded similar results to face-to-face interviews. Participants included people...

OBJECTIVE To examine concordance between responses to patient experience survey items evaluating doctors' interpersonal skills, and subsequent patient interview accounts of their experiences of care. DESIGN Mixed methods study integrating data from patient questionnaires completed immediately after a video-recorded face-to-face consultation with a general practitioner (GP) and subsequent inte...

Newspaper design is a creative art, and the possibilities to vary design are endless. Basically, newspaper designers judge the value of a designed spread by looking at it themselves and imagining how readers could perceive it or sense what it feels like. Actual feedback on readers perception of the design is very scarce. The only method widely in use is target group interviews. Interviews can c...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia ('face blindness') have severe face recognition difficulties due to a failure to develop the necessary visual mechanisms for recognizing faces. These difficulties occur in the absence of brain damage and despite normal low-level vision and intellect. Adults with developmental prosopagnosia report serious personal and emotional consequences ...

Risk factors: Baseline assessment and follow up were carried out by face to face diagnostic interviews and questionnaires administered by a trained assessor. At baseline, presence of eating disorder was confirmed (Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders; Eating Disorders Inventory) and current and lifetime psychiatric disorders assessed (Hopkins Symptom Checklist-90). Follow up i...

The Internet has emerged as a viable and reliable tool for recruiting. Using the Internet and e-Business applications, companies and applicants can reach one another faster and easier. This convenience has resulted in significant challenges for Human Resource departments. First-generation automation tools made the initial step toward addressing these challenges. Early systems provided the abili...

Survey methodologists typically seek to improve data on sensitive topics by standardizing surveys and avoiding the use of human interviewers. This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare reports on first sexual encounters between a standard survey and an in-depth interview. A significant fraction of young women who claimed in the survey to have ne...

BACKGROUND Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examin...