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Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges
OBJECTIVES: This contribution provides insights into the methodology of a pan‐European population‐based online survey, performed without external funding during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present the impact of different dissemination strategies to collect data from a non‐probabilistic convenience sam...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1875 |
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author | Kilian, Carolin Rehm, Jürgen Allebeck, Peter Barták, Miroslav Braddick, Fleur Gual, Antoni Matrai, Silvia Petruželka, Benjamin Rogalewicz, Vladimir Rossow, Ingeborg Schulte, Bernd Štelemėkas, Mindaugas Manthey, Jakob |
author_facet | Kilian, Carolin Rehm, Jürgen Allebeck, Peter Barták, Miroslav Braddick, Fleur Gual, Antoni Matrai, Silvia Petruželka, Benjamin Rogalewicz, Vladimir Rossow, Ingeborg Schulte, Bernd Štelemėkas, Mindaugas Manthey, Jakob |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This contribution provides insights into the methodology of a pan‐European population‐based online survey, performed without external funding during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present the impact of different dissemination strategies to collect data from a non‐probabilistic convenience sample and outline post‐stratification weighting schemes, to provide guidance for future multi‐country survey studies. METHODS: Description and comparison of dissemination strategies for five exemplary countries (Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Spain) participating in the Alcohol Use and COVID‐19 Survey. Comparison of the sample distribution with the country's actual population distribution according to sociodemographics, and development of weighting schemes. RESULTS: The dissemination of online surveys through national newspapers, paid social media adverts and dissemination with the support of national health ministries turned out to be the most effective strategies. Monitoring the responses and adapting dissemination strategies to reach under‐represented groups, and the application of sample weights were helpful to achieve an analytic sample matching the respective general population profiles. CONCLUSION: Reaching a large pan‐European convenience sample, including most European countries, in a short time was feasible, with the support of a broad scientific network. |
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spelling | pubmed-82098852021-06-21 Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges Kilian, Carolin Rehm, Jürgen Allebeck, Peter Barták, Miroslav Braddick, Fleur Gual, Antoni Matrai, Silvia Petruželka, Benjamin Rogalewicz, Vladimir Rossow, Ingeborg Schulte, Bernd Štelemėkas, Mindaugas Manthey, Jakob Int J Methods Psychiatr Res Original Articles OBJECTIVES: This contribution provides insights into the methodology of a pan‐European population‐based online survey, performed without external funding during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present the impact of different dissemination strategies to collect data from a non‐probabilistic convenience sample and outline post‐stratification weighting schemes, to provide guidance for future multi‐country survey studies. METHODS: Description and comparison of dissemination strategies for five exemplary countries (Czechia, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Spain) participating in the Alcohol Use and COVID‐19 Survey. Comparison of the sample distribution with the country's actual population distribution according to sociodemographics, and development of weighting schemes. RESULTS: The dissemination of online surveys through national newspapers, paid social media adverts and dissemination with the support of national health ministries turned out to be the most effective strategies. Monitoring the responses and adapting dissemination strategies to reach under‐represented groups, and the application of sample weights were helpful to achieve an analytic sample matching the respective general population profiles. CONCLUSION: Reaching a large pan‐European convenience sample, including most European countries, in a short time was feasible, with the support of a broad scientific network. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8209885/ /pubmed/33951258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1875 Text en © 2021 The Authors. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Kilian, Carolin Rehm, Jürgen Allebeck, Peter Barták, Miroslav Braddick, Fleur Gual, Antoni Matrai, Silvia Petruželka, Benjamin Rogalewicz, Vladimir Rossow, Ingeborg Schulte, Bernd Štelemėkas, Mindaugas Manthey, Jakob Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title | Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title_full | Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title_fullStr | Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title_short | Conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges |
title_sort | conducting a multi‐country online alcohol survey in the time of the covid‐19 pandemic: opportunities and challenges |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1875 |
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