No evidence of response bias in a population-based childhood cancer survivor questionnaire survey - Results from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Rueegg, Corina S; Gianinazzi, Micòl E; Michel, Gisela; Zwahlen, Marcel; von der Weid, Nicolas X; Kuehni, Claudia E; Ansari Djaberi, Marc Georges; Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0176442

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English

No evidence of response bias in a population-based childhood cancer survivor questionnaire survey - Results from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

ContributorsRueegg, Corina S; Gianinazzi, Micòl E; Michel, Gisela; Zwahlen, Marcel; von der Weid, Nicolas X; Kuehni, Claudia E; Ansari Djaberi, Marc Georges; Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)

Published inPLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 5, e0176442

Publication date2017

Abstract

This is the first study to quantify potential nonresponse bias in a childhood cancer survivor questionnaire survey. We describe early and late responders and nonresponders, and estimate nonresponse bias in a nationwide questionnaire survey of survivors.

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Bias
Child
Preschool
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Neoplasms/psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires/standards
Survivors/psychology
Switzerland
Young Adult

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie, gynécologie et obstétrique

Research group

Oncologie et hématologie pédiatrique (907)

Citation (ISO format)

RUEEGG, Corina S et al. No evidence of response bias in a population-based childhood cancer survivor questionnaire survey - Results from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. In: PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, n° 5, p. e0176442. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176442