Collecting retrospective data: Accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records
Collecting retrospective data: Accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(97)00088-9
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发表时间：
1997-11-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Blane, DB
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作者：
Berney, LR;Blane, DB
近期对健康不平等的生命历程视角的关注，将重新引发人们对回顾性数据准确性的担忧。本文表明，通过一种有助于将回忆偏差降至最低的访谈技术，可以在有用的准确度范围内获取某些类型社会状况的回忆信息。从57名老年初期的受试者那里收集了他们青年和童年时期社会状况的生命网格信息，并与50年前记录的这些受试者相同社会状况的档案材料进行了比较。对访谈数据和档案数据的比较显示，绝大多数受试者在50年后仍能以有用的准确度回忆起简单的社会人口学信息。研究得出结论，在生命历程研究中，精心收集的回顾性数据为出生队列研究提供了有价值的补充，前提是这种使用对能够准确回忆和无法准确回忆的信息类型较为敏感。（C）1997年爱思唯尔科学有限公司
Recent interest in a lifecourse perspective on health inequalities will rekindle concerns about the accuracy of retrospective data. The present paper demonstrates that recalled information on some types of social circumstances can be obtained with a useful degree of accuracy using an interview technique which helps to minimize recall bias. Lifegrid information about social circumstances during their youth and childhood was collected from 57 subjects in early old age and compared with archive material of the same subjects' social circumstances recorded 50 years previously. A comparison of interview with archive data revealed that a substantial majority of subjects had recalled simple sociodemographic information after a period of 50 years with a useful degree of accuracy. Within lifecourse research, it is concluded, carefully collected retrospective data offer a valuable complement to birth cohort studies, provided that such usage is sensitive to the types of items of information which can, and can not, be recalled accurately. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.