The Effect of Framing and Placement on Linkage Consent.

ABSTRACT: Numerous surveys link interview data to administrative records, conditional on respondent consent, in order to explore new and innovative research questions. Optimizing the linkage consent rate is a critical step toward realizing the scientific advantages of record linkage and minimizing the risk of linkage consent bias. Linkage consent rates have been shown to be particularly sensitive to certain design features, such as where the consent question is placed in the questionnaire and how the question is framed. However, the interaction of these design features and their relative contributions to the linkage consent rate have never been jointly studied, raising the practical question of which design feature (or combination of features) should be prioritized from a consent rate perspective. W

SUBMITTER: Sakshaug JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6639764 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature