236 research outputs found
Gezondheid in de vier grote steden
Society; HealthDe serie 'Voorstudies en achtergronden' omvat werkstukken die in het kader van de werkzaamheden van de WRR tot stand zijn gekomen en naar zijn oordeel van zodanige kwaliteit en betekenis zijn, dat publicatie gewenst is. De verantwoordelijkheid voor de inhoud en de ingenomen standpunten berust bij de auteurs
Ethical considerations for alcohol researchers in their relation towards policy makers
Alcohol policy research all over the world is often funded by national or local governments. Researchers involved may be confronted with several ethical questions. These questions can have quite a different character. Ethical questions may have a severe character that can be quite “clear” for the researchers involved. Miller et al. [1] for instance recently studied interference of funders, like governments or industrial and charitable organizations, in addiction research. Results show that activities occur such as censorship of research outputs, interference with the wording in reports and articles and interventions in when and how findings are released. Governments funding policy research may interfere in a way as described by Miller et al. [1]. but also less obvious ethical issues may occur: What if the research question is formulated in a “questionable” or “suggestive” way? What if policy makers deliberately ignore results of scientific research? The purpose of this contribution is to elaborate on these less obvious ethical issues, not primarily to give clear-cut answers but to raise consciousness and stimulate reflection and debate among researchers and policy makers
Usability of volunteer brokerage websites:The why and how of user testing
Dutch volunteer centers offer online volunteer brokerage via their websites. Usability is a crucial factor for the success of this service. It determines whether or not visitors or potential volunteers stay on the website and a match can be made. In this article, user testing is applied to the websites of five volunteer centers. The results provide information on the usability of these specific websites. In addition, other volunteer centers are offered insight into the various problems of usability and a tool to test this
Estimating non-response bias in a survey on alcohol consumption: comparison of response waves
AIMS: According to 'the continuum of resistance model' late respondents
can be used as a proxy for non-respondents in estimating non-response
bias. In the present study, the validity of this model was explored and
tested in three surveys on alcohol consumption. METHODS: The three studies
collected their data by means of mailed questionnaires on alcohol
consumption whereby two studies also performed a non-response follow-up.
RESULTS: Comparisons of early respondents, late respondents and
non-respondents in one study showed some support for 'the continuum of
resistance model', although another study could not confirm this result.
Comparison of alcohol consumption between three time response groups
showed no significant linear pattern of differences between response
waves. CONCLUSIONS: The hypothesis that late respondents are more similar
to non-respondents than early respondents, could not be confirmed or
rejected. Repeated mailings are effective in obtaining a greater sample
size, but seem ineffective in improving the representativeness of alcohol
consumption surveys
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