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Classroom-based surveys of adolescent risk-taking behaviors: reducing the bias of absenteeism (2002)
(Etude des adolescents en milieu scolaire aux comportements à risque : comment réduire le biais de l'absentéisme)
Auteur(s) :
GUTTMACHER S. ;
WEITZMAN, B. C. ;
KAPADIA, F. ;
WEINBERG S. L.
Année
2002
Page(s) :
235-237
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
6
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
MILIEU SCOLAIRE
;
ECHEC SCOLAIRE
;
ADOLESCENT
;
ENQUETE
;
CONDUITE A RISQUE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
American Journal of Public Health, 2002, 92, (2), 235-237
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Objectives. This investigation examined the effectiveness of intensive efforts to include frequently absent students in order to reduce bias in classroom-based studies. Methods. Grade 10 students in 13 New York City high schools (n = 2049) completed self-administered confidential surveys in 4 different phases: a 1-day classroom capture, a 1-day follow-up, and 2 separate 1-week-follow-ups. Financial incentives were offered, along with opportunities for out-of-classroom participation. Results. Findings showed that frequently absent students engaged in more risk behaviors than those who were rarely absent. Intensive efforts to locate and survey chronically absent students did not, however, significantly alter estimates of risk behavior. Weighting the data for individual absences marginally improved the estimates. Conclusions. This study showed that intensive efforts to capture absent students in classroom-based investigations am not warranted by the small improvements produced in regard to risk behavior estimates. (Review' s abstract)
Affiliation :
New York Univ. School of Education, Dpt of Health Studies, 726 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.
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