Citation

Gondolf EW, Deemer C. J. Interpers. Violence 2004; 19(7): 747-765.

Affiliation

Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260504265618

PMID

15186534

Abstract

More needs to be known about the phoning logistics of interviewing subjects for longitudinal follow-up studies in the domestic violence field. Using phoning logs from a 4-year follow-up of batterer intervention, the authors calculated the number, results, and costs of phone calls from a subsample of 100 men and 138 women. The number of calls is high (5.5 per man and 7.1 per woman), locators play a substantial role (for 25% of the men and women), and mailed questionnaires are a useful supplement (increasing response rate 5% for men and 11% for women). On average, about half of the subjects were interviewed at each interval. The main obstacle is not refusals but no response and not being able to locate a subject. Strategies to address "no response" are considered.

Language: en