scholarly journals Interviewer Effects Among Older Respondents in the European Social Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Beullens ◽  
Geert Loosveldt ◽  
Caroline Vandenplas
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Interviewer Effects ◽  
Current Article

Abstract The proportion of elderly people in general population samples is increasing. Therefore, it is becoming more important to pay special attention to older respondents when assessing the quality of data. The main hypothesis of the current article is that interviewer effects are higher in the older age-group. We use data collected in 13 countries during Round 7 of the European Social Survey. The results support the supposition that older respondents tend to need more clarification, are more prone to misunderstand the questions, and are likely to have longer interviews. In line with the expectations, we also observe that among older respondents, particularly those aged 71 and above, interviewer effects are more common than among younger respondents.

scholarly journals Safety assessment of essential medicines for elderly people: a bibliographic survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Rossi Varallo ◽  
Fernanda Mariana de Oliveira ◽  
Patrícia de Carvalho Mastroianni
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Adverse Drug Events ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Manual Search

Certain medicines are considered potentially inappropriate (PIM) for elderly people as they increase the risk of adverse drug events (ADE) and because safer alternative therapies are available on the market. In this context, in order to identify the instruments that assess the quality of medical prescriptions for elderly and to determine which drugs are considered PIM, a bibliographic survey was conducted in PUBMED, LILACS and PAHO databases, in February and March/2010. The search strategy included the use of health descriptors and a manual search in the references cited by selected papers. During the period of data collection, 15 instruments were identified. In 2012, with the publication of the update of Beers criteria, this instrument was included in the study. We identified 163 PIM of 25 therapeutic classes, of which 125 (76.7%) are marketed in Brazil. Of these, 31 (24.8%) are essential medicines (RENAME 2012), of which 13 have safer therapeutic equivalents and 19 (15.2%) are over-the-counter drugs. Data suggest the need for inclusion of safer alternatives for the elderly in the national list of essential medicines and the pharmaceutical care for early detection of ADE in this age group, in order to contribute to the safe use of medicines.

scholarly journals Values Across Countries in a Modern Society – the Example of Polish Schools

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Eugeniusz Świtała
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Values Education ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Social Survey

Abstract This paper reports on a fragment of a broader research on values education in Polish and Latvian schools. This paper seeks to evaluate data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and elaborate on the frames of references for identification of the aims for future research. The paper highlights the findings of an action research carried out in two Polish schools. The values of European countries are analysed in the context of educational research in Europe and other regions of the world. The frames of references constructed during the study and data from European Social Survey were the grounds for creating a questionnaire for an action research to find out the tendencies that derive from the experience of students. The survey was preceded by a special training session for the teaching staff about evaluation and its significance for increasing the quality of school performance.

scholarly journals SOCIAL COHESION IN UKRAINE (THE EXPERIENCE OF APPLICATION OF BERTELSMANN STIFTUNG METHOD TO EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY DATA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bondarenko ◽  
S. Babenko ◽  
O. Borovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Quality Of Life ◽  
The Individual

The present article highlights the results of social cohesion study fulfilled on datasets collected during the sixth wave of the European Social Survey. The conducted study involved the explanation of the importance of social cohesion as a social phenomenon, caused by a paradigmatic shift of approaches to measuring the quality of life of societies. This involved the consideration of social cohesion as an important factor to measure the "social quality" of life. For this purpose, a technique implemented by Bertelsmann Stiftung was used, which was applied to available sixth wave of European Social Survey data, the latter, which included Ukraine, and further certified through the analysis of other additional sources. The study allowed to make a number of substantive conclusions about the level of social cohesion in Ukraine comparing to European countries and other countries of the world. Some recommendations for further research on social cohesion also have been given. The said phenomenon is important because it once can cover a wide range of socially important issues, being simultaneously at both the individual and the collective (macro) level of consciousness. The research of social cohesion highlights "problematic social spheres", so-called weak points of social relations, and conclusions provide knowledge about the direction, to which the efforts to improve the life of the society should be primarily directed.

Cancer and depression: A comparison of cancer victims with the general population, findings from the European Social Survey 2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 504-510
Author(s):  
Gerd Inger Ringdal ◽  
Kristen Ringdal
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Multilevel Modelling ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Cancer Disease ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Adjusted Risk ◽  
Cut Point ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Living With Cancer

Aims: An increasing number of people in Europe are living with cancer, either as an active disease or as a past experience. Depressive symptoms may impair quality of life in cancer patients and may constitute increased risks for disability, as well as being a risk factor for increased mortality. Our study compared self-reported symptoms of depression in people who currently or previously have experienced cancer with self-reported symptoms of depression in the general population. Methods: Our study was based on data from the European Social Survey 2014, with representative samples from 19 countries. Depression was measured by an eight-item CES-D Scale, with a cut-point of a mean score of 2 to indicate depression. Multilevel modelling was used to examine the relationship between cancer status and depression. Results: Respondents who at the time of the interview reported to have cancer were more likely to report symptoms above the cut-point on the depression scale than people who never had experienced cancer (unadjusted odds ratio (ORunadjusted)=2.59; 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.20–3.06; and ORadjusted=2.00; 95% CI 1.70–2.36). The difference was smaller comparing people who previously had experienced cancer to people who never had experienced cancer (ORunadjusted=1.46; 95% CI 1.19–1.79; and ORadjusted=1.28; 95% CI 1.05–1.55). The differences in depression by cancer status did not vary among the welfare state regimes. Conclusions: Respondents with a cancer disease showed a substantial elevated risk of depression after adjusting for a range of potential confounders. Respondents who had recovered also showed significantly higher adjusted risk of depression than respondents who had never experienced cancer.

scholarly journals Interviewer Effects on Non-Differentiation and Straightlining in the European Social Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Loosveldt ◽  
Koen Beullens
Keyword(s):  
European Social Survey ◽  
Response Category ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Response Styles ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Interviewer Effects ◽  
Random Intercept ◽  
Explained Variance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Variance Explained

AbstractIn this article we examine the interviewer effects on different aspects of response styles, namely non-differentiation and straightlining, which in general refers to the tendency to provide the same answers to questions in a block of questions. According to research about response styles, the impact of the interviewer on this kind of response behavior is rare. Five blocks of items in the questionnaire in the sixth round of the European Social Survey (2012) are used in the analysis. These data also allow for an evaluation of the differences between countries in terms of non-differentiation and straightlining. Five different measurements of these aspects of response style are used in the analysis. To disentangle the impact of respondents and interviewers on these aspects of response style, a three-level random intercept model is specified. The results clearly show interviewer effects on the respondent’s tendency to select a response category that is the same as the response category for the previous item. In some countries the proportion of explained variance due to differences between interviewers is larger than the proportion of variance explained by the differences between respondents.

scholarly journals Description The Activities of Recording and Reporting Maternal Health Monitoring in PWS-KIA Based on Surveillance Attributes

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Ika Arma Rani ◽  
Arief Hargono
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
Low Sensitivity ◽  
Alternative Solutions

ABSTRACTMaternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in East Java Province tends to increase every year. In fact, Jember has the highest number of maternal deaths during the period 2009-2011, and placed in 2nd position during 2012. Puskesmas Kaliwates for 3 consecutive years has the highest number of maternal deaths in the Jember. This research aimed to to describe the activities of recording and reporting the maternal health monitoring in PWS KIA system at Puskesmas Kaliwates, Jember regency, in 2012 by using attributes surveillance.The Research design is descriptive. Assessment in attributes of maternal health monitoring on PWS KIA system at Puskesmas Kaliwates in 2012 showed that the system is quite complicated, lack of flexibility, low quality of data, high acceptability, low sensitivity, low NPP, low representativeness, uncertain timelines, and low stability of data.The alternative solutions given are familiarizing midwife to analyze and compose a follow-up planning, improving the quality of the completeness and data’s accuracy, standardizing the entire form on KIA PWS systems to avoid duplication and increase forms simplicity,completing PWS KIA guidelines in Puskesmas, making guidelines on how to fill the form, taking records on register cohort of mother by dividing the sheet into 12 sections by month for pregnant women by gestational age group to facilitate the monitoring of pregnant women and childbirth, developing other surveillance system, forming KIA surveillance team, improving attendance format, and using a computerized system.Keywords: Monitoring maternal health, PWS KIA, Attributes surveillance.

Visual Handicap in the Aged: Self-Reported Visual Disability and the Quality of Life of Residents of Public Housing for the Elderly

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 588-590
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Gillman ◽  
Arnold Simmel ◽  
Ellen Perlman Simon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
General Population ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Housing For The Elderly ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons

Declining vision adds to the frustrations and deprivations which make the life of the elderly difficult. This opinion is supported by the experience of clinicians and other providers of services to the visually impaired. However, there is little systematic information available about those elderly visually impaired persons who do not come to clinicians and social agencies for help. Our aim is to describe how reduced vision affects a part of the general population of elderly people.

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