School of Population Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2012 Sep 18;12:321. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-321.
This paper describes the first phase of the LINKIN Health Study, which aims to evaluate health system functioning within a rural population. Locally relevant data on the health status and service usage of this population, including non-users and users, health service providers traditionally omitted from health services research, and multiple socio-economic indicators, was collected using a self-complete health census. Household response was 75% (N = 4425). Response was greater when face-to-face contact was made at delivery compared to when questionnaires were left in the letterbox (89% vs 64%), falling to 26% when no face-to-face contact was made at either delivery or collection.
本文描述了 LINKIN 健康研究的第一阶段，该研究旨在评估农村人群的卫生系统功能。使用自我完成的健康普查收集了当地与该人群健康状况和服务使用情况相关的数据，包括传统上被健康服务研究忽视的非使用者和使用者、卫生服务提供者，以及多个社会经济指标。家庭回应率为 75%（N=4425）。与将问卷留在信箱中的情况相比，在交付时进行面对面接触时的回应率更高（89%比 64%），而在交付和收集时均未进行面对面接触时，回应率则降至 26%。
