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AU - Gaertner, Beate
AU - Koschollek, Carmen
AU - Grube, Maike M.
AU - Lüdtke, Denise
AU - Fuchs, Judith
AU - Scheidt-Nave, Christa
AU - Gößwald, Antje
AU - Wetzstein, Matthias
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Including nursing home residents in a general population health survey in Germany
KW - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
KW - Datengewinnung
KW - alter Mensch
KW - Pflegeheim
KW - Schätzung
KW - Reliabilität
KW - Stichprobe
KW - soziale Faktoren
KW - Antwortverhalten
KW - Interview
KW - Bevölkerungsstatistik
KW - Gesundheitszustand
KW - demographische Faktoren
KW - Umfrageforschung
KW - coverage
KW - hard-to-reach
KW - nursing home residents
KW - register-based sampling design
KW - sequential mixed-mode design
PY - 2019
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - In: Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (2019) ; 1-9
N2 - Nursing home residents (NHRs) are systematically excluded from the target populations of most population-based health surveys, which may result in biased prevalence estimates. Researchers who wish to include NHRs in surveys face several challenges including difficulty sampling and contacting NHRs and greater levels of functional impairments impeding participation. A population-wide, register-based, random sample of 8,000 older individuals (57.1% women, mean age=76.2 years) in six primary sampling units (PSUs) in Germany was used to analyse NHR coverage. The contact and response rates among NHRs were compared to those among persons living in private households in two PSUs (N=2,000) by applying an informed sequential mixed-mode design. All persons received a health questionnaire by mail, and random subgroups of initial non-respondents were further contacted by telephone or personal visits. The population-wide, register-based, random sample included a substantial proportion of NHRs that nearly approximated the national rate of 4.2% NHRs among individuals ≥65 years. Never-theless, undercoverage of a specific subgroup of NHRs was apparent. The contact and re-sponse rates were significantly lower among NHRs than persons in private households (contact: 49.0% vs. 72.9%; response: 20.0% vs. 45.9%). Therefore, it remains questionable if NHRs can be included in regular national health monitoring programmes.
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