A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension
Every year dozens of cross-sectional studies are carried out that estimate the prevalence of risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases. Given that, there is potentially a large amount of information that could be extremely useful for risk factor surveillance. However, there are good reasons...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:1355a77a2a5b442aa39909ed539567bd 2023-05-15T15:07:55+02:00 A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension Silva Luis Carlos Ordúñez Pedro Rodríguez María Paz Robles Sylvia 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/1355a77a2a5b442aa39909ed539567bd EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892001000900002 https://doaj.org/toc/1020-4989 1020-4989 https://doaj.org/article/1355a77a2a5b442aa39909ed539567bd Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 10, Iss 3, Pp 152-160 (2001) Surveillance prevalence hypertension risk factors research methodology Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article 2001 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T21:57:59Z Every year dozens of cross-sectional studies are carried out that estimate the prevalence of risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases. Given that, there is potentially a large amount of information that could be extremely useful for risk factor surveillance. However, there are good reasons to question the methodological rigor and the reliability of the results coming from many of these studies. The potential benefits of the data are curtailed by the studies' shortcomings, in part often because there is no clear and explicit methodological information providing the details needed to assess the procedures that were actually used, as well as a failure to apply a uniform methodology that would allow comparisons over time or across studies. This paper is intended to be both a didactic and practical tool. It describes the construction of an instrument for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done within the context of surveillance activities, using the example of hypertension. The paper discusses and illustrates the most common pitfalls found with prevalence studies, and it also offers methodological standards that can guide future prevalence studies as well as stimulate future research efforts in this area. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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Every year dozens of cross-sectional studies are carried out that estimate the prevalence of risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases. Given that, there is potentially a large amount of information that could be extremely useful for risk factor surveillance. However, there are good reasons to question the methodological rigor and the reliability of the results coming from many of these studies. The potential benefits of the data are curtailed by the studies' shortcomings, in part often because there is no clear and explicit methodological information providing the details needed to assess the procedures that were actually used, as well as a failure to apply a uniform methodology that would allow comparisons over time or across studies. This paper is intended to be both a didactic and practical tool. It describes the construction of an instrument for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done within the context of surveillance activities, using the example of hypertension. The paper discusses and illustrates the most common pitfalls found with prevalence studies, and it also offers methodological standards that can guide future prevalence studies as well as stimulate future research efforts in this area. |
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A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension |
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A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension |
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A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension |
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tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension |
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