Methods, Validity, and Reliability Bibliography
Selected Articles Related to BRFSS and Other Self-Reported Data
Ahmed WM, Kalsbeek WD. An analysis of telephone call history data from
the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Proceedings of the Section
of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association 1998;224–229.
Anda RF, Williamson DF, Dodson D, Remington PL. Telephone versus
in-person reporting of smoking and alcohol use: a comparison of two
statewide surveys. American Journal of Health Promotion 1989;4:32–36.
Andresen EM, Catlin TK, Wyrwich KW, Jackson-Thompson J. Retest
reliability of surveillance questions on health related quality of life.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003;57(5):339–343.
Andresen EM, Fitch CA, McLendon PM, Meyers AR. Reliability and validity
of disability questions for U.S. census 2000. American Journal of Public
Health 2000;90(8):1297–1299.
Andresen EM, Vahle VJ, Lollar D. Proxy reliability: Health-related
quality of life (HRQoL) measures for people with disability. Quality of
Life Research 2001;10(7):609–619.
Arday DR, Tomar SL, Nelson DE, Merritt RK, Schooley MW, Mowery P. State
smoking prevalence estimates: A comparison of the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System and current population surveys. American Journal of
Public Health 1997;87(10):1665–1669.
Beatty P, Schechter S, Whitaker K. Evaluating subjective health
questions: Cognitive and methodological investigations. Proceedings of the
Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association,
1996;956–961.
Bowlin SJ, Morrill BD, Nafziger AN, Jenkins PL, Lewis C, Pearson TA.
Validity of cardiovascular disease risk factors assessed by telephone
survey: The Behavioral Risk Factor Survey. Journal of Clinical
Epidemiology
1993;46(6):561–571.
Bowlin SJ, Morrill BD, Nafziger AN, Lewis C, Pearson TA. Reliability and
changes in validity of self-reported cardiovascular disease risk factors
using dual response: The Behavioral Risk Factor Survey. Journal of
Clinical Epidemiology 1996;49(5):511–517.
Brownson RC, Eyler AA, King AC, Shyu YL, Brown DR, Homan SM. Reliability
of information on physical activity and other chronic disease risk factors
among US women aged 40 years or older. American Journal of Epidemiology
1999;149(4):379–391.
Brownson RC, Jackson-Thompson J, Wilkerson JC, Kiani F. Reliability of
information on chronic disease risk factors collected in the Missouri
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Epidemiology
1994;5:545–549.
Caplan LS, McQueen DV, Qualters JR, Leff M, Garrett C, Calonge N.
Validity of women's self-reports of cancer screening test utilization in a
managed care population. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
2003;12(11 Pt 1):1182–1187.
Carley-Baxterl, Link M, Roe D, QuirozR. Does context really matter?
Results from a Spanish language advance letter pilot. In: Proceedings of
the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings/American Statistical Association
Conference [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association; 2006.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Comparison of observed and
self-reported seat belt use rates—United States. Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report 1988;37:549–551.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Proceedings of the 1993 NCHS
Conference on the Cognitive Aspects of Self-Reported Health Status. Working
Paper Series 1994;10:11–28.
Coates RJ, Serdula MK, Byers T, Mokdad A, Jewell S, Leonard SB,
Ritenbaugh C, Newcomb P, Mares-Perlman J, Chavez N, Block G. A brief,
telephone-administered food frequency questionnaire can be useful for
surveillance of dietary fat intakes. Journal of Nutrition
1995;142:1473–1483.
Dayton J, Link M, Pels R, Ivie K. Improving response in Spanish-speaking
households. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings/American
Statistical Association Conference [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American
Statistical Association; 2006.
Degnan D, Harris R, Ranney J, Quade D, Earp J, Gonzalez J. Measuring the
use of mammography: Two methods compared. American Journal of Public
Health
1992;82:1386–1388.
Fowler, Jr. FJ, Fitzgerald G, Beatty P. When two questions are better
than one. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American
Statistical Association, 1999;956–961.
Gentry EM, Kalsbeek WD, Hogelin GC, Jones JT, Gaines KL, Forman MR, Marks
JS, Trowbridge FL. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveys: II. Design, methods,
and estimates from combined state data. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine 1985;1(6):9–14.
Giles WH, Croft JB, Keenan NL, Lane MJ, Wheeler FC. The validity of
self-reported hypertention and correlates of hypertension awareness among
blacks and whites within the stroke belt. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine 1995;11(3):163–169.
Grayson K, Brustrom JE. Health survey reliability in an active duty
population. Military Medicine 2001;166(7):632–636.
Hennessy CH, Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Scherr PA, Brackbill R. Measuring
health-related quality of life for public health surveillance. Public
Health Reports 1994;109(5):665–672.
Hunter WW, Stewart JR, Rodgman EA. Characteristics of seatbelt users and
nonusers in a state with a mandatory belt use law. Health Education
Research
1990;5:161–173.
Iachan R, Schulman J, Collins S, Powell-Griner E, Nelson DE. Methods for
combining state BRFSS survey data for national estimation. Proceedings of
the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association,
1999;711–714.
Jackson C, Jatulis DE, Fortmann SP. The Behavioral Risk Factor Survey and
the Stanford Five-City Project Survey: A comparison of cardiovascular risk
behavior estimates. American Journal of Public Health
1992;82:412–416.
Jones DA, Ainsworth BE, Macera CA, Pratt M, Kimsey CD, Morgan A.
Reliability and validity of walking questions in the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System (BRFSS). Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
1999;31(5 Suppl):S232.
Kristal AR, Shattuck AL, Henry HJ. Patterns of dietary behavior
associated with selecting diets low in fat: Reliability and validity of a
behavioral approach to dietary assessment. Journal of the American
Dietetic Association 1990;90(2):214–220.
Kristal AR, White E, Davis JR, Corycell G, Raghunathan T, Kinne S, Lin
TK. Effects of enhanced calling efforts on response rates, estimates of
health behavior, and costs in a telephone health survey using random-digit
dialing.
Public Health Reports 1993;108(3):372–379.
Link M. Predicting persistence and performance among newly recruited
telephone interviewers. Field Methods 2006; 18(3):305-320.
Link M, Armsby P, Hubal R, Guinn C. Accessibility and acceptance of
responsive virtual human technology as a telephone interviewer training
tool. Computers and Human Behavior 2006; 22(2):412-426.
Link M, Battaglia M, Frankel M, Osborn L, Mokdad A. Address-based versus
random-digit dial sampling; comparison of data quality from BRFSS mail and
telephone surveys. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Federal Committee on
Statistical Methodology Research Conference [CD-ROM]; Arlington, Virginia.
Available at http://www.fcsm.gov/events/papers05.html.
Link M, Battaglia M, Frankel M, Osborn L, Mokdad A. Address-based versus
random-digit dialed surveys: comparison of key health and risk indicators.
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 164: 1019 - 1025.
Link M, Battaglia M, Frankel M, Osborn L, Mokdad A. Mode and address
frame alternatives to RDD. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Statistical
Meetings/American Statistical Association Conference [CD-ROM]. Alexandria,
VA: American Statistical Association; 2006.
Link M, Mokdad A. Advance letters as a means of improving respondent
cooperation in random digit dial studies: a multistate experiment. Public
Opinion Quarterly 2005; 69(4):1-16.
Link M, Mokdad A. Can web and mail survey modes improve participation in
an RDD-based national health surveillance? Journal of Official Statistics
2006; 22(2):293-312.
Link M, Mokdad A. Rapid response health surveillance and the utility of
small area estimates: responding to the 2004-2005 influenza vaccine
shortage. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings/American
Statistical Association Conference [CD-ROM]. Alexandria, VA: American
Statistical Association; 2006.
Link M, Mokdad A, Stackhouse H, Flowers N. Race, ethnicity, and
linguistic isolation as determinants of participation in public health
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Link M, Osborn l, InduniM, Battaglia M, Frankel M. Behavior coding
real-time survey interpreters. In: Proceedings of the 2006 Joint Statistical
Meetings/American Statistical Association Conference [CD-ROM]. Alexandria,
VA: American Statistical Association; 2006.
Martin LM, Leff M, Calonge N, Garrett C, Nelson DE. Validation of
self-reported chronic conditions and health services in a managed care
population. American Journal of Preventive Medicine
2000;18(3):215–218.
Mokdad AH, Stroup DF, Giles WH. Public health surveillance for behavioral
risk factors in a changing environment: Recommendations from the Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance Team. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
2003;52(No. RR-9):1–12.
Nebot M, Celentano DD, Burwell L, Davis A, Davis M, Polacsek M, Santelli
J. AIDS and behavioral risk factors in women in inner city Baltimore: a
comparison of telephone and face to face surveys. Journal of Epidemiology
& Community Health 1994;48(4):412–418.
Nelson DE. Validity of self reported data on injury prevention behavior:
lessons from observational and self reported surveys of safety belt use in
the United States. Injury Prevention 1996;2(1):67–69.
Nelson DE, Holtzman D, Bolen J, Stanwyck CA, Mack KA. Reliability and
validity of measures from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
(BRFSS).
Social and Preventive Medicine 2001;46(Suppl 1):S3–S42.
Nelson DE, Holtzman D, Waller M, Leutzinger C, Condon K. Objectives and
design of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Proceedings of the
Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1998;
214–218.
Newschaeffer CJ. Validation of BRFSS health-related quality of life
questions in a statewide sample. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, 1998.
Odom DM, Kalsbeek WD. Further analysis of telephone call history data
from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Proceedings of the
Section of Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, 1999;
398–403.
Patrick DL, Cheadle A, Thompson DC, Diehr P, Koepsell T, Kinne S. The
validity of self-reported smoking: a review and meta-analysis. American
Journal of Public Health 1994;84(7):1086–1093.
Pearson D, Cheadle A, Wagner E, Tonsberg R, Psaty BM. Differences in
sociodemographic, health status, and lifestyle characteristics among
American Indians by telephone coverage. Preventive Medicine
1994;23:461–464.
Powell-Griner E. Use and limitations of the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System data. Proceedings of the Section of Survey Research
Methods, American Statistical Association, 1998;219–223.
Remington PL, Smith MY, Williamson DF, Anda RF, Gentry EM, Hogelin GC.
Design, characteristics, and usefulness of state-based behavioral risk
factor surveillance 1981-1987. Public Health Reports
1988;103(4):366–375.
Robertson LS. Self-reports yield invalid results on seat belt use.
American Journal of Public Health 1994;84(9):1525–1526.
Robertson LS. The validity of self-reported behavioral risk factors:
seatbelt and alcohol use. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical
Care
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Rowland ML. Self-reported weight and height. American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 1990;52(6):1125–33.
Rowland ML, Forthofer RN. Adjusting for nonresponse bias in a health
examination survey. Public Health Reports 1993;108(3):380–386.
Serdula M, Coates R, Byers T, Mokdad A, Jewell S, Chavez N, Mares-Perlman
J, Newcomb P, Ritenbaugh C, Treiber F, et al. Evaluation of a brief
telephone questionnaire to estimate fruit and vegetable consumption in
diverse study populations. Epidemiology 1993;4(5):455–463.
Serdula MK, Mokdad AH, Pamuk ER, Williamson DF, Byers T. Effects of
question order on estimates of the prevalence of attempted weight loss.
American Journal of Epidemiology 1995;142(1):64–67.
Serdula MK, Mokdad AH, Byers T, Siegel PZ. Assessing alcohol consumption:
beverage-specific versus grouped-beverage questions. Journal of Studies
on Alcohol 1999;60(1):99–102.
Sharlin KS, Heath GW, Ford ES, Welty TK. Hypertension and blood pressure
awareness among American Indians of the northern plains. Ethnicity &
Disease
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Shea S, Stein AD, Lantigua R, Basch CE. Reliability of the Behavioral
Risk Factor Survey in a triethnic population. American Journal of
Epidemiology 1991;133:489–500.
Siegel PZ. Self-reported health status: Public health surveillance and
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cognitive aspects of self-reported health status, S. Schechter ed.
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Siegel PZ, Franks AL. Potential bias in cardiovascular risk behavior
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Smith C, Frazier EL. Comparison of traditional and modified Waksberg.
Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical
Association, 1993; 926–931.
Smith PF, Remington PL, Williamson DF, Anda RF. A comparison of alcohol
sales data with survey data on self-reported alcohol use in 21 states.
American Journal of Public Health 1990;80:309–312.
Smith-Warner SA, Elmer PJ, Fosdick L, Tharp TM, Randall B. Reliability
and comparability of three dietary assessment methods for estimating fruit
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Starr GJ, Dal Grande E, Taylor AW, Wilson DH. Reliability of
self-reported behavioral health risk factors in a South Australian telephone
survey. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health
1999;23(5):528–530.
Stein AD, Lederman RI, Shea S. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System questionnaire: Its reliability in a statewide sample. American
Journal of Public Health 1993;83:1768–1772.
Stein AD, Courval JM, Lederman RI, Shea S. Reproducibility of responses
to telephone interviews: demographic predictors of discordance to risk
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Stein AD, Lederman RI, Shea S. Reproducibility of the women’s health
module of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire.
Annals of Epidemiology 1996;6:47–52.
Streff FM, Wagenaar AC. Are there really shortcuts? Estimating seat belt
use with self-report measures. Accident Analysis & Prevention
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Thompson DC, Rivara FP, Thompson RS, Salzberg PM, Wolf ME, Pearson DC.
Use of behavioral risk factor surveys to predict alcohol-related motor
vehicle events. American Journal of Preventive Medicine
1993;9(4):224–230.
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