Potential use of telephone surveys for non-communicable disease surveillance in developing countries: evidence from a national household survey in Lebanon

Table 3 Prevalence estimates, odds ratios (OR) and 95 % confidence intervals (CI) comparing the ‘any phone sample’ to the ‘original HH sample’

NCD and public health indicators	Prevalence (%) in original HH sample (A)	Prevalence (%) in any phone sample (C)	uOR^a	95 % CI	aOR^a	95 % CI	Age-sex adjusted prevalence (%) in any phone sample
Behaviors
Current cigarette smoking	34.7	34.7	1.00	0.89–1.11	0.95	0.85–1.07	34.8
Current water pipe smoking	25.0	25.5	1.06	0.93–1.21	1.05	0.92–1.19	24.3
Binge drinking in past 30 days^b	11.7	13.3	1.63*	1.31–2.02	1.48*	1.18–1.85	12.5
Health Conditions
High Blood Pressure	14.0	13.4	0.89	0.76–1.03	0.85	0.72–1.01	15.3
Diabetes	6.4	6.8	1.26*	1.01–1.58	1.25	0.99–1.56	7.7
Hyperlipidemia	13.3	14.2	1.23*	1.04–1.46	1.27*	1.06–1.51	15.7
Cardiovascular disease	7.0	7.2	1.10	0.88–1.37	1.07	0.83–1.38	8.3
Asthma	6.1	6.0	0.94	0.75–1.18	0.94	0.75–1.19	6.0
Obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²)	24.4	24.3	0.95	0.83–1.07	0.95	0.83–1.08	25.6
Disability	1.8	1.7	0.84	0.60–1.18	0.78	0.54–1.12	1.9
Self-Rated Health^c	32.0	33.1	1.23*	1.09–1.39	1.16*	1.02–1.32	31.6

^auOR: unadjusted odds ratios comparing ‘any phone sample’ to total household population sample; aOR: odds ratios adjusted for age and sex
^bBinge drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks (male) or four or more drinks (female) at least once in past 30 days
^cvery good and better versus good and worse
*Asterisk indicate statistically significant results (p value < critical alpha of 0.05)

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