Reliability and validity of survey data on sexual behaviour

The contribution of structured interview surveys to the monitoring of changes in risk behaviour is a crucial issue for the evaluation of HIV control programmes. A review is made of studies that have attempted to assess the reliability and validity of selfreported sexual behaviour. Evidence from deve...

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Published in:Health transition review : the cultural, social, and behavioural determinants of health social, and behavioural determinants of health, 1994-01, Vol.4, p.93-110
Main Authors: Dare, O.O., Cleland, J.G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa - epidemiology
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
Coitus
Condoms
Data analysis
Data validity
Developing Countries
Epidemiologic Methods
Female
Health technology assessment
HIV
HIV Infections - epidemiology
HIV Infections - transmission
Human sexual behavior
Humans
Interviews
Male
Men
Philippines - epidemiology
Population
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Self reports
Sexual Behavior - ethnology
Sexual Behavior - statistics & numerical data
Sexual behaviour
Survey data
Surveys
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Summary:The contribution of structured interview surveys to the monitoring of changes in risk behaviour is a crucial issue for the evaluation of HIV control programmes. A review is made of studies that have attempted to assess the reliability and validity of selfreported sexual behaviour. Evidence from developed-country studies is encouraging; in general the quality of responses appears to be as high as that found in studies of other topics. In developing countries, there have been fewer studies and results are more varied. One clear lesson is that survey execution must be of a very high standard; as in all survey research, but particularly in the case of sex surveys, poor standards of design and execution will yield untrustworthy data.
ISSN:1036-4005