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Telephone versus web panel National Survey for monitoring adoption of preventive behaviors to climate change in populations: a case study of Lyme disease in Québec, Canada

BMC medical research methodology, 2020-04, Vol.20 (1), p.78-15, Article 78 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Telephone versus web panel National Survey for monitoring adoption of preventive behaviors to climate change in populations: a case study of Lyme disease in Québec, Canada
  • Author: Domche, Grâce Ngambo ; Valois, Pierre ; Canuel, Magalie ; Talbot, Denis ; Tessier, Maxime ; Aenishaenslin, Cécile ; Bouchard, Catherine ; Briand, Sandie
  • Subjects: Adaptation ; Arachnids ; Canada ; Censuses ; Climate Change ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Data collection ; Households ; Humans ; Internet ; Lyme disease ; Lyme Disease - diagnosis ; Lyme Disease - epidemiology ; Lyme Disease - prevention & control ; Medical research ; Observatories ; Outdoor air quality ; Polls & surveys ; Public health ; Quebec - epidemiology ; Questionnaires ; Research methodology ; Sociodemographics ; Surveillance ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Telephone ; Telephone survey ; Web survey ; Zoonoses
  • Is Part Of: BMC medical research methodology, 2020-04, Vol.20 (1), p.78-15, Article 78
  • Description: To monitor the adoption of climate change adaptive behaviors in the population, public health authorities have to conduct national surveys, which can help them target vulnerable subpopulations. To ensure reliable estimates of the adoption of these preventive behaviors, many data collection methods are offered by polling firms. The aim of this study was to compare a telephone survey with a web survey on Lyme disease with regard to their representativeness. The data comes from a cross-sectional study conducted in the Province of Québec (Canada). In total, 1003 people completed the questionnaire by telephone and 956 filled in a web questionnaire. We compared the data obtained from both survey modes with the census data in regard to various demographic characteristics. We then compared the data from both samples in terms of self-reported Lyme disease preventive behaviors and other theoretically associated constructs. We also assessed the measurement invariance (equivalence) of the index of Lyme disease preventive behaviors across the telephone and web samples. Findings showed that neither the telephone nor the web panel modes of data collection can be considered more representative of the target population. The results showed that the proportion of item non-responses was significantly higher with the web questionnaire (5.6%) than with the telephone survey (1.3%), and that the magnitude of the differences between the two survey modes was nil for 19 out of the 30 items related to Lyme disease, and small for 11 of them. Results from invariance analyses confirmed the measurement invariance of an index of adaptation to Lyme disease, as well as the mean invariance across both samples. Our results suggested that both samples provided similar estimates of the level of adaptation to Lyme disease preventive behaviors. In sum, the results of our study showed that neither survey mode was superior to the other. Thus, in studies where adaptation to climate change is monitored over time, using a web survey instead of a telephone survey could be more cost-effective, and researchers should consider doing so in future surveys on adaptation to climate. However, we recommend conducting a pretest study before deciding whether to use both survey modes or only one of them.
  • Publisher: England: BioMed Central
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1471-2288
    EISSN: 1471-2288
    DOI: 10.1186/s12874-020-00958-4
    PMID: 32272899
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