1. The survey and the experiment Cultural Changes in the Netherlands is a longitudinal survey in which a representative sample of the Dutch population aged 16 and over is interviewed at regular intervals. The survey was carried out annually until 1998, since when it has been held every two years. The aim of the project is to construct opinion time series. The questionnaires used consist of sele...

Study objective—To study the eVect of using a mail questionnaire or home interviews on the size and the selectivity of response to national health surveys. Design—The interview survey and the mail survey were both carried out in the same country (the Netherlands) using the same sample frame, the same study period (1998) and collected partly the same data on demographic, socioeconomic and health...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of sexual behaviour data collected from African adolescents using five methods. METHODS 9280 Tanzanian adolescents participated in a biological marker and face to face questionnaire survey and 6079 in an assisted self-completion questionnaire survey; 74 participated in in-depth interviews and 56 person weeks of participant observation were conducted. RESULTS...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) is an expert's rating tool to assess the severity and symptoms of depression. The aim of the present two studies was to validate the Persian version of the MADRS and determine its test-retest reliability in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorders (MDD). METHODS In study 1, the translated MADRS and the Hamilto...

Objective: To assess the level of awareness on breast cancer among women of reproductive age. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in OPD of Dhaka Medical College Hospital among the 175 respondents by face to face interview using pretested semi structured

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious social issue in Japan. In order to start effective interventions for abused women, the appropriate method of screening for IPV in healthcare settings needs clarifying. The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a face-to-face interview with a self-administered questionnaire. We used the Violence Against Women Screen (V...

In the pioneer study by MacGregor et al. (1953) extended interviews with facially deformed patients revealed the serious psycho-social difficulties that could be encountered in everyday life. This view was elaborated by Goffman (1963) who held that facial deformity was one of several conditions that could stigmatise individuals, making them less acceptable to the rest of society. The desire to ...

A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogue...

BACKGROUND Development of efficient methods for identifying subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) from the general population is warranted, because these subjects represent an important group for (epidemiological) research purposes. OBJECTIVES (1) To describe a two-step population screening for identifying adults with MCI from the general population for research purposes, by questionn...