Tracking and attrition in longitudinal school-based smoking prevention research.
Tracking and attrition in longitudinal school-based smoking prevention research.
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DOI：
10.1016/0091-7435(89)90072-8
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发表时间：
1989-03
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Phyllis L. Pirie;Shirley J. Thomson;S. L. Mann;Arthur V. Peterson;David M. Murray;Brian R. Flay;J. Best
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作者：
Phyllis L. Pirie;Shirley J. Thomson;S. L. Mann;Arthur V. Peterson;David M. Murray;Brian R. Flay;J. Best
以学校为基础的预防吸烟项目的发展研究已经产生了一系列已知短期有效的方法。对这些方法的进一步评价现在需要对参与者进行长期随访。为了尽量减少这些纵向研究中由人员流失引起的问题，研究人员开发了跟踪研究参与者的技术。这些方法主要基于电话、邮件和公共文件的使用，需要研究参与者及其父母的良好背景信息。本文总结了三个研究小组从事此类随访研究的经验。这些研究人员已经确定了在参与者的长期随访中最有用的背景信息类型，开发了一套获取此类背景信息的策略，并开发了在几年后成功跟踪参与者的方法。
Research in the development of school-based smoking prevention programs has resulted in a set of approaches of known short-term efficacy. Further evaluation of these approaches now requires long-term follow-up of participants. To minimize the problems caused by attrition in these longitudinal studies, investigators have developed techniques for tracking study participants. Based primarily on the use of the telephone, mail, and public documents, these methods require good background information on both the study participants and their parents. This article summarizes the experience of three teams of researchers engaged in such follow-up studies. These investigators have identified the types of background information most useful in long-term follow-up of participants, have developed a set of strategies to obtain such background information, and have developed methods for successfully tracking participants after a lapse of several years.