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Health diaries

L M Verbrugge

    Medical Care
    |January 1, 1980
    PubMed
    Summary
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    Health diaries offer rich individual health data but require significant resources. Careful management ensures high data quality and participant cooperation, balancing benefits against costs.

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    Area of Science:

    • Epidemiology
    • Health Services Research
    • Biostatistics

    Background:

    • Health diaries are prospective tools for collecting morbidity, disability, and health action data.
    • They serve methodologic, memory aid, and primary data source functions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To inventory and describe studies utilizing health diaries.
    • To review evidence on diary data reporting, validity, and utility.
    • To assess respondent cooperation, conditioning effects, data quality, costs, and analysis complexity.

    Main Methods:

    • Systematic review and synthesis of existing studies on health diary usage.
    • Analysis of evidence concerning reporting levels, recall error, and data validity.
    • Evaluation of diary data's value for individual and dynamic health analyses.

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    Main Results:

    • Health diaries provide rich, detailed individual health information.
    • High data quality and respondent cooperation are achievable with dedicated staff support.
    • Diary data offers advantages for understanding symptoms, health behavior, and health dynamics.

    Conclusions:

    • Health diaries are valuable for in-depth health data collection.
    • Effective implementation requires balancing data richness against resource investment.
    • Researchers must weigh the comprehensive content against costs and analytical demands.