Motivations for (non)participation in population-based health studies among the elderly – comparison of participants and nonparticipants of a prospective study on influenza vaccination
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- 作者：Manas K. Akmatov ; Leonhard Jentsch ; Peggy Riese…
- 关键词：Participation ; Nonparticipants ; Reasons ; Motivations ; Population ; based study ; Elderly ; Germany
- 刊名：BMC Medical Research Methodology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：760KB
- 刊物主题：Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2288
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundParticipation in epidemiological studies has strongly declined in recent years. We examined the reasons for (non)participation in population-based health studies among participants and nonparticipants of a prospective study on influenza vaccination among the elderly.