The problem of response in epidemiologic studies in Germany (Part II)

Das Gesundheitswesen
W HoffmannU Latza

Abstract

The first part of this paper introduced various definitions of response and discussed their significance in the context of different study types. This second part addresses incentives as a method to increase response and evaluates the impact of non response or delayed response on the validity of the study results. Recruitment aims at minimising the proportion of refusal. To achieve this, incentives can be used and potential participants can be contacted in a sequence of increasing intensity. The effectiveness of different incentives was investigated within the pretest of the German survey on children and adolescents by the Robert Koch Institute. A low response is often interpreted in terms of non-response bias. This assumption, however, is as incorrect as would be opposite conclusion, that a high response guarantees valid results. Any study of the influence of nonresponse requires information on non-responders. The comparison between early and late responders as an indirect method to evaluate systematic differences between participants and non-participants by wave analysis is demonstrated within the Northern Germany Leukaemia and Lymphoma study (NLL). The German guidelines for Good Epidemiologic Practice recommend to solicit a ...Continue Reading

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