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Attrition bias in longitudinal research involving adolescent psychiatric outpatients

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JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
卷 194, 期 12, 页码 958-961

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000243761.52104.91

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This study investigated whether the degree of difficulty contacting participants at follow-up in a longitudinal study of adolescent psychiatric outpatients is associated with baseline and/or follow-up Axis I and 11 psychopathology and sociodemographic variables. At baseline, 101 participants 15 to 18 years old were assessed using standardized diagnostic instruments, and 97 were reinterviewed, face-to-face, at 2-year follow-up. A hierarchical tracking strategy and meticulous follow-up contact log were used. More than one quarter of the sample required multiple tracking efforts to be located and interviewed. The presence and number of Axis I and 11 disorders at 2-year follow-up was significantly associated with follow-up contact difficulty. Baseline psychopathology and sociodemographic variables were not associated with follow-up contact difficulty. The findings indicate that longitudinal studies of adolescent outpatients that compare dropouts with completers utilizing baseline characteristics are likely to underestimate the extent of psychopathology at follow-up.

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