Questionnaires are commonly used by researchers to collect information from assisted
living and residential care (AL/RC) communities. Alongside concerns over coverage
(eg, lack of sampling frame) and design effects, community-level self-selection may
potentially compromise study findings by introducing nonresponse bias. When organizations
that fail to respond or complete a questionnaire differ in important ways from those
that do, response bias is introduced in outcomes associated with probability of participation.
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Understanding the characteristics of nonrespondents and reasons for nonparticipation
can inform researchers about the possibility of nonresponse bias. We explore here
associations between response to a mail questionnaire
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and AL/RC characteristics that are associated with outcomes used in AL/RC research.
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All study procedures of the project were approved by the Institutional Review Board
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Published online: July 06, 2018
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