Face-to-face interviews versus Internet surveys: Comparison of two data collection methods in the Rome foundation global epidemiology study: Implications for population-based research.
Ami D SperberSerhat BorXiu Cai FangShrikant I BangdiwalaDouglas A DrossmanUday Chand GhoshalMagnus SimrenTack JanWilliam E WhiteheadDan L DumitrascuShin FukudoJohn KellowEdith OkekeEamonn M M QuigleyMax SchmulsonPeter J WhorwellTimothy ArchampongPayman AdibiViola AndresenMarc A BenningaBruno BonazLuis Bustos FernandezSuck Chei ChoiEnrico S CorazziariCarlos FrancisconiAlbis HaniLeonid LazebnikYeong Yeh LeeAgata MulakMohammed Masudur RahmanJavier SantosMashiko SetshediAri Fahrial SyamStephen VannerReuben K WongAurelio Lopez-ColomboValeria CostaRam DickmanMotoyori KanazawaAmmar Hassanzadeh KeshteliRutaba KhatunIradj MalekiPierre PoitrasNitesh PratapOksana StefanyukSandie ThomsonMurat BuyrukNalan UnalDan HuangJun SongJohann P HreinssonOlafur S PalssonPublished in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2023)
The findings strongly indicate that besides affecting data quality, manpower needs and data collection time and costs, the choice of survey method is a substantial determinant of symptom reporting and DGBI prevalence outcomes. This has important implications for future DGBI research and epidemiological research more broadly.