A cross-sectional and semantic investigation of self-rated health in the northern Sweden MONICA-study
Open Access
- 9 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Vol. 12 (1), 154
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-154
Abstract
Self-Rated Health (SRH) correlates with risk of illness and death. But how are different questions of SRH to be interpreted? Does it matter whether one asks: “How would you assess your general state of health?”(General SRH) or “How would you assess your general state of health compared to persons of your own age?”(Comparative SRH)? Does the context in a questionnaire affect the answers? The aim of this paper is to examine the meaning of two questions on self-rated health, the statistical distribution of the answers, and whether the context of the question in a questionnaire affects the answers.Keywords
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