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Religious landscape in Brazil: Comparing different representative nationwide approaches to obtain sensitive information in healthcare research.
Peres, Mario Fernando Prieto; de Oliveira, Arão Belitardo; Leão, Frederico Camelo; Vallada, Homero; Moreira-Almeida, Alexander; Lucchetti, Giancarlo.
Afiliação
  • Peres MFP; PROSER, Programa de Espiritualidade e Religiosidade, Instituto de Psiquiatra, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • de Oliveira AB; Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Leão FC; Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Vallada H; PROSER, Programa de Espiritualidade e Religiosidade, Instituto de Psiquiatra, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Moreira-Almeida A; PROSER, Programa de Espiritualidade e Religiosidade, Instituto de Psiquiatra, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Lucchetti G; School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil.
SSM Popul Health ; 6: 85-90, 2018 Dec.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30246139
Although the basis of religious studies start with demographics, nation-wide data are often extracted from face-to-face interviews (leading to a social-desirability bias) and in studies not originally designed to assess religion. This study aims to understand the religious landscape in Brazil and to investigate the feasibility of carrying out a representative nation-wide survey without interviewers, comparing it with other representative face-to-face surveys. We conducted a nationwide online survey representing all regions in Brazil. These results were compared with five other Brazilian representative surveys. A total of 1169 individuals completed the online questionnaires. The percentage of participants according to the gender and in relation to the Brazilian region was quite similar for all surveys. However, the online survey had the higher level of education among all surveys. In relation to the religious characteristics, the percentage of each variable varied from survey to survey. Those surveys originally designed to assess religion tended to yield more religious affiliations and less ceiling effects. The online survey was able to identify more diverse religious affiliations and more balanced responses in the religious attendance and importance of religion in life. The present study found that, even in nation-wide representative surveys, there are important differences in the results obtained while investigating religion. These differences could be associated with the type of data collection (face-to-face and online), the design of the study (originally designed to investigate religion or not) and options and the type of the questions used.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: SSM Popul Health Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: SSM Popul Health Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido