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Methodological issues in health care surveys of the Spanish heritage population

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  • Aday, L.A.
  • Chiu, G.Y.
  • Andersen, R.

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This paper examines national survey data on access to medical care to explore methodological issues associated with conducting health care surveys of Spanish-heritage persons. These include problems of identifying and sampling such groups, achieving respondent cooperation, designing valid interview protocols, and controlling biases that may result from the cultural specificity of the concepts being studied. The findings suggest that more attention should be given to the following in designing health care surveys of Spanish-heritage individuals: Cultural and economic heterogeneity of 'Spanish-heritage' grouping, validity studies of health care utilization, and yea-saying tendencies related to health care attitude items. Given that there is a paucity of information available on methodological problems associated with health care surveys of Spanish-heritage persons, these analyses should serve to inform researchers of issues to be taken into account in designing such studies and to suggest useful hypotheses to explore in evaluating the validity of social survey data on minority (especially non-English speaking) populations' health care practices.

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  • Aday, L.A. & Chiu, G.Y. & Andersen, R., 1980. "Methodological issues in health care surveys of the Spanish heritage population," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 70(4), pages 367-374.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.70.4.367_8
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.70.4.367
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    1. Rachel E. Davis & Frederick G. Conrad & Shaohua Dong & Anna Mesa & Sunghee Lee & Timothy P. Johnson, 2024. "An ounce of prevention: using conversational interviewing and avoiding agreement response scales to prevent acquiescence," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 471-495, February.
    2. Susan B. Sorenson, 1998. "Identifying Hispanics in Existing Databases," Evaluation Review, , vol. 22(4), pages 520-534, August.
    3. Mingnan Liu & Frederick G. Conrad & Sunghee Lee, 2017. "Comparing acquiescent and extreme response styles in face-to-face and web surveys," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 941-958, March.

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