Using information technology to communicate about health and wellbeing, assessment and review : audio computer assisted self-interviewing (A-CASI)

Davies, Murray (2009) Using information technology to communicate about health and wellbeing, assessment and review : audio computer assisted self-interviewing (A-CASI). Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 8 (2). ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

The development and growth of information technology in the past decade has changed the face of communication at both a personal and an organisational level. As young people and practitioners become more familiar with its applications, it seems pertinent to think about how it can be applied more widely in relation to health and wellbeing in residential child care settings. An increasing number of local authorities are introducing audio computer assisted self-interviewing (A-CASI) as a method for improving communication with young people in their care. Self-completion methods in general are viewed as advantageous, in comparison to other approaches, in terms of being cheaper and quicker to administer and also in terms of minimizing the under-reporting of issues that could be sensitive (De Vaus, 1996). A-CASI approaches have been identified as being of particular benefit in conducting research with particular groups, such as children and young people and have also been associated with aiding literacy difficulties, with an enhanced sense of privacy and with increased disclosure of sensitive information (De Leeuw et al., 1997; Borgers et al., 2000; Borgers et al., 2004). In addition, its use is thought to decrease respondent error or fatigue and allows the relatively easy use of more complicated questionnaires, providing richer data than other self-completion approaches (Tourangeau and Smith, 1996).

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