Evaluation of Automatically Assigned Job-Specific Interview Modules.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In community-based epidemiological studies, job- and industry-specific 'modules' are often used to systematically obtain details about the subject's work tasks. The module assignment is often made by the interviewer, who may have insufficient occupational hygiene knowledge to assign the correct module. We evaluated, in the context of a case-control study of lymphoid neoplasms in Asia ('AsiaLymph'), the performance of an algorithm that provided automatic, real-time module assignment during a computer-assisted personal interview.

Methods

AsiaLymph's occupational component began with a lifetime occupational history questionnaire with free-text responses and three solvent exposure screening questions. To assign each job to one of 23 study-specific modules, an algorithm

SUBMITTER: Friesen MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4965807 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature