@article{ref1,
title="Comprehension context and sponsor effects in a hospital mental health study",
journal="Sociological methods and research",
year="2019",
author="Gibson, C. Ben and Mayhall, Timothy B.",
volume="48",
number="3",
pages="677-697",
abstract="Although a wealth of literature exists studying the effect of sponsor characteristics on self-reports of mental health, little work assesses a related but potentially powerful effect: a context comprehension effect, that is, a change in the respondent's interpretation of a survey question, given the concept elicited by the interviewer. Further, most studies of sponsor effects assess mean differences in responses according to sponsor type; no work has studied how these effects can affect the reliability of a psychometric instrument, which are of general importance to sociological studies of health. Here, using a study of 169 recently discharged hospital patients, we find that both effects are likely to have affected responses and, together, negated the reliability of a psychometric instrument. Future studies should consider the effect of not only sponsor characteristics upon responses but also consider how questions might be interpreted given in an interview context.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0049-1241",
doi="10.1177/0049124117729706",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124117729706"
}