title: Adolescent sexual behavior, drug use, and violence: increased reporting with computer survey technology.
abstract: Surveys of risk behaviors have been hobbled by their reliance on respondents to report accurately about engaging in behaviors that are highly sensitive and may be illegal. An audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) technology for measuring those behaviors was tested with 1690 respondents in the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males. The respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions using either audio-CASI or a more traditional self-administered questionnaire. Estimates of the prevalence of male-male sex, injection drug use, and sexual contact with intravenous drug users were higher by factors of 3 or more when audio-CASI was used. Increased reporting was also found for several other risk behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Program in Health and Behavior Measurement at the Research Triangle Institute, 1635 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Lindberg
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Pleck
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Sonenstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D003201:Computers; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D018907:Privacy; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence