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- Title
Het effect van het inkorten en vereenvoudigen van een gezondheidsvragenlijst op de respons: Een pilot in drie GGD-regio's.
- Authors
Verhagen, Claudia; Dijkshoorn, Henriëtte; Wijffels, Camiel; Werkhoven, Johan; Dekkers, Caroline; Meijerman, Antoine; van Dijken, Suzan; Huijgen, Gerben
- Abstract
The Dutch health monitor consists of quadrennial questionnaires by the Municipal Health Services (GGD) aimed at assessing the health status of the population. This monitor faces a decreasing response rate, particularly among young adults and men, which might impair the representativeness of the results. In 2018, the GGD in Amsterdam, The Hague and Almere and I&O Research studied in two variants whether changing the questionnaire improves the response rate. Variant 1: in Amsterdam and Almere, 3,000 19- to 64-year-olds received a comprehensive or shortened questionnaire (20 vs. 12 pages). Variant 2: 4,500 19- to 64-year-olds in deprived neighbourhoods in The Hague received a comprehensive questionnaire, a very short questionnaire on mental health or this very short questionnaire at language level B1 (respectively 20, 6 and 6 pages). In Amsterdam and Almere, the response rate and results did not differ between the comprehensive and the shortened questionnaire. In the deprived neighbourhoods of The Hague, both very short questionnaires yielded higher response rates than the comprehensive questionnaire. Using B1-level questionnaires did not improve the response rate, but respondents were more likely to report psychosocial complaints. This study shows that, in deprived neighbourhoods, a very short health questionnaire could improve the response rate.
- Publication
TSG: Tijdschrift Voor Gezondheidswetenschappen, 2020, Vol 98, Issue 4, p139
- ISSN
1388-7491
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s12508-020-00284-6