Ribeiro Andréia Queiroz, Acurcio Francisco de Assis, César Cibele Comini, Rozenfeld Suely, Klein Carlos Henrique
Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2008 Sep;24(9):2171-81. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2008000900023.
This paper reports on the response rate and completeness of item response in a self-administered postal survey questionnaire on use of medication by retirees 60 years or older under the Brazilian Social Security System, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, in 2003. Questionnaires were sent in two rounds to 800 postal addresses of subjects selected by simple random sampling. The response rate was 47.8%, and there were no significant differences in the selected characteristics between respondents and non-respondents, or between early and late respondents. For almost all socio-demographic and health variables, item omission was less than or equal to 5% for both the entire sample and early or late responders. For all the medicines used, the dose and laboratory were the main items omitted. The findings indicate that details on drug use should be reevaluated in self-administered questionnaires.
本文报告了2003年在米纳斯吉拉斯州贝洛奥里藏特市针对巴西社会保障体系下60岁及以上退休人员用药情况开展的一项自填式邮政调查问卷的回复率和项目回答完整性。问卷分两轮寄往通过简单随机抽样选取的800个邮政地址。回复率为47.8%，在选定特征方面，受访者与未受访者之间、早期与晚期受访者之间均无显著差异。对于几乎所有社会人口统计学和健康变量，整个样本以及早期或晚期回复者的项目遗漏率均小于或等于5%。对于所有使用的药物，剂量和实验室检查是主要遗漏项目。研究结果表明，在自填式问卷中应重新评估用药细节。
