title: Comparison of telephone with World Wide Web-based responses by parents and teens to a follow-up survey after injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify sociodemographic factors associated with completing a follow-up survey about health status on the web versus by telephone, and to examine differences in reported health-related quality of life by method of response.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey about child health status of 896 parents of children aged 0-17 years treated in a hospital emergency department or admitted for a traumatic brain injury or arm injury, and 227 injured adolescents aged 14-17 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  The main outcomes were characteristics of those who completed a follow-up survey on the web versus by telephone and health-related quality of life by method of response.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Email addresses were provided by 76.9 percent of parents and 56.5 percent of adolescents at baseline. The survey was completed on the web by 64.9 percent of parents and 40.2 percent of adolescents through email. Parents with email access who were Blacks, Hispanics, had lower incomes, and those who were not working were less likely to choose the web mode for completing the survey. Unlike adolescents, the amount of time for parents to complete the survey online was significantly shorter than completion by telephone. Differences by survey mode were small but statistically significant in some of the six functional outcome measures examined.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Survey mode was associated with several sociodemographic characteristics. Sole use of web surveys could provide biased data.
authors.affiliation: Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. fpr@uw.edu
authors.forename: Frederick P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Rivara
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Koepsell
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Durbin
authors.forename: Kenneth M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vavilala
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dorsch
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roper-Caldbeck
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Houseknecht
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Temkin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D011788:Quality of Life; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013689:Telephone; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation