A comparison of results from an alcohol survey of a prerecruited Internet panel and the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions
A comparison of results from an alcohol survey of a prerecruited Internet panel and the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00571.x
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发表时间：
2008-02-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Rosenbloom, David L.
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作者：
Heeren, Timothy;Edwards, Erika M.;Rosenbloom, David L.
背景资料：鉴于今天的电信环境，随机数字拨号电话调查面临着答复率和覆盖面下降，费用增加的问题。作为RDD的替代方法，我们在随机招募的常设互联网小组中调查了参与者，并对非小组成员进行了随机抽样的电话调查，以研究酒精使用与后来酒精相关问题之间的关联。本文的目的是将我们的调查结果与全国酒精及相关疾病流行病学调查（NESARC）的结果进行比较，NESARC是一项对43,093名成年人进行的面对面概率抽样调查，重点关注人口统计学、饮酒开始年龄和酒精依赖之间的关系。我们对4,021名18至39岁的饮酒者进行了人口统计学和饮酒特征的调查，并与来自NESARC的11,549名年龄相似的饮酒者的特征进行了比较。加权分析占抽样设计比较了这2个样本的饮酒特征在过去一年中，在受访者的饮酒最重的时期，并在多变量模型检查人口统计学之间的关联，饮酒开始的年龄，和终身酒精依赖。补充的互联网小组的参与者在性别、教育和种族/民族方面与全国18至39岁的饮酒者相似，而18至25岁的成年人在互联网小组中的代表性不足。补充的互联网小组报告了过去12个月中度风险饮酒、终身高风险饮酒和终身（曾经）酒精依赖的比例较高。估计酒精依赖和年龄之间的关联饮酒发作，危险饮酒，酒精问题的家族史没有显着差异之间的补充互联网样本和NESARC surveillance.Conclusions：随机招募的互联网为基础的面板可以提供一种替代随机数字拨号电话调查和在人的调查与酒精相关的问题的因素的一些研究。
Background: Given today's telecommunications environment, random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys face declining response rates and coverage, and increasing costs. As an alternative to RDD, we surveyed participants in a randomly recruited standing Internet panel supplemented with a randomly sampled telephone survey of nonpanel members for a study of associations between onset of alcohol use and later alcohol-related problems. The purpose of this paper was to compare results from our survey with results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a face-to-face probability sample survey of 43,093 adults, with a focus on associations between demographics, age of drinking onset, and alcohol dependence.Methods: Demographic and drinking characteristics from our survey of 4,021 ever-drinkers between the ages of 18 and 39 years were compared with the characteristics of 11,549 similarly aged ever-drinkers from the NESARC. Weighted analyses accounting for sampling design compared these 2 samples on drinking characteristics over the past year and during a respondent's heaviest period of drinking, and in multivariate models examining associations between demographics, age of drinking onset, and lifetime alcohol dependence.Results: Participants in the supplemented Internet panel were similar to the national population of 18- to 39-year-old ever drinkers on gender, education, and race/ethnicity, while adults who were aged 18 to 25 years were under-represented in the Internet panel. The supplemented Internet panel reported higher rates of moderate risk drinking over the past 12 months, lifetime high-risk drinking, and lifetime (ever) alcohol dependence. Estimates of the associations between alcohol dependence and age of drinking onset, risky drinking, and family history of alcohol problems did not significantly differ between the supplemented Internet sample and the NESARC survey.Conclusions: Randomly recruited Internet-based panels may provide an alternative to random digit dial telephone surveys and in-person surveys for some studies of factors associated with alcohol-related problems.