Barriers | Strategies |
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Language or literacy problems | • Measures in other languages or bilingual interviewers [45, 63, 85, 90, 96, 100, 111, 113]. |
• Use of multi-media [48, 106], or computer data collection [48, 59, 120]. | |
• Avoid self-administered surveys [117] use of objective data [97, 117]. | |
• Short surveys [106]. | |
Lack of landline telephone (for population based telephone surveys) or highly mobile population | • Mailed survey instead of telephone [90]*. |
• Use of objective (e.g. tobacco sales) data instead of self-report [97, 117]. | |
Mistrust of researchers and the use of the data | • Culturally trained interviewers [56, 111] or locals [55, 74, 96, 98, 105, 115, 118, 124]. |