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We think this was due to some combination of:

1) insufficient training of interviewers (squarely on me)
2) non-comprehension of reverse-coded questions (low education attainment)
3) non-transferability of scale items to these communities

The scales from elsewhere did not cohere in a very poor rural setting. Respondents appeared not to 'get' the prompts leading to terrible internal validity and test-retest reliability

Second, work led by (then medical student) Karolin Kirchgaesser. We evaluated if the BIDR scale developed in high-income settings could identify which Burkinabe adolescents are more likely to (intentionally or unintentionally) mis-report in favour of socially desirable answers

Reader, we can not

First up, with David Lindstrom @brownsociology.bsky.social we show that using non-verbal response cards (so interviewers don't know what answer respondents give), increases reporting of sensitive experiences. In this case #trauma & #ptsd in rural Burkinabe teens

Msg: Privacy in interviews matters

This is all part of our wider mixed-methods investigation of rural informal caregiving:

In-depth ethnography highlighted that our surveys - one part of a wider quantitative questionnaire, one during the ethnographic process - missed key aspects of health limitations. Esp about functional limitations vs diagnosed disease

Tl; dr We needed to do better scoping these survey questions

Was this a follow-up study from:

I probably skimmed this article too fast, but would have loved to see this work in disucssion with past literature on fixed choice designs

I also need to get my head around the stats methods used to adjust reported networks for the human bias and error that creeps in...

A very different context from my research, but yet so many similarities and thus learnings for me.

I need to read more anthro networks...

On a related note: Michiyo Iwami +++ show that HPV vaccine uptake in migrants (all in high-income countries) is particularly low, averaging ~20%

So much work to be done!

Also: 30% of parents did not plan to vaccinate. Which is frankly depressing to me