How participants report their health status: cognitive interviews of self-rated health across race/ethnicity, gender, age, and educational attainment

How participants report their health status: cognitive interviews of self-rated health across race/ethnicity, gender, age, and educational attainment

Abstract Background Self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to measure subjective health. Yet it is unclear what underlies health ratings, with implications for understanding the validity of SRH overall and across sociodemographic characteristics. We analyze participants’ explanations of how they for...

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Main Authors: Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Kenneth D. Croes, Dorothy F. Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
US
Self-rated health
Cognitive interviewing
Grounded theory coding
Evaluative frameworks
Response process
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-017-4761-2

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