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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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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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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.
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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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