title: Intimate partner violence prevalence estimation using telephone surveys: understanding the effect of nonresponse bias.
abstract: To assess the effect of nonresponse bias in telephone prevalence studies of intimate partner violence, the authors asked women visiting a health center in Albany, New York, during 1998 about their willingness to participate in telephone surveys. Women physically victimized by a male partner were more likely than other women to say they would participate in telephone surveys (66.7% vs. 44.4%, p = 0.03). Among women severely victimized, those living with their partner were less willing to participate than those not cohabiting (45.5% vs. 91.7%, p = 0.03). Including questions about willingness to participate in telephone surveys in studies of other kinds may be a useful method of identifying nonresponse bias.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: McNutt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015982:Bias; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013689:Telephone