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01-06-2011 | Hints & Kinks
A recruitment method to obtain community samples of children for survey research in Switzerland
Authors:
Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Ben Jann, Michelle Dey, Ueli Zellweger
Published in:
International Journal of Public Health
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Issue 3/2011
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Excerpt
In conducting epidemiological surveys of children in Switzerland, it is often very difficult to recruit large, representative community samples. To date, most large epidemiological surveys on children have used convenience samples, like school children (Jeannin et al.
2005); (Kuntsche and Kuendig
2006); (Steinhausen et al.
1998). One major limitation of school surveys is that certain information about the family and parents is often unavailable. …