Abstract
Background and objective:
Since1988,The World Health Organization (WHO) has increased its focus on improving public health, which has derived its focus on improving public health, which has derived a variety of health‐promoting efforts, including an increased focus on Health research in Denmark. Health research is a broad field, but one of the areas is the Development of cohort studies, including the mother‐child cohorts.These types of cohort studies provide a Unique opportunity to investigate the triggers of disease, because the data Collection starts during the woman's pregnancy.
The data Collection continues after the birth where it is primarily the child
WHO is being examined. There are several large mother‐child cohorts,
both in Denmark and abroad, and they provide important knowledge about
Health and disease. However, a cohort are challenged by the fact that it
enrolls participants for a long period of time, and therefore requires special
attention to minimize the drop‐out rate, since a high drop-‐out rate will have
consequences for the results of the cohort.
It is remarkable that none of the current mother-‐child cohorts are
concerned about these issues and do more to investigate why
some participants drop out and why some choose not to participate in a mother-‐child cohort.
This is considered an important subject in order to maintain participants in a mother‐child cohort, why this thesis seeks to obtain knowledge about the causes
of drop-out, how to retain partcipants and rejection of mother-‐child cohorts.
Material and methods Data was collected by using qualitative, semi-‐structured
interviews with 16 participants and non-participants from the two current Danish
mother-child cohorts; Odense Børnekohorte (OBK) and Better Health for Mother
and Child (BSMB).
Furthermore, it was estimated that the concepts of economics and availability only had a negative impact on a few informants, and thus it was argued that these terms do not affect the dropout-‐rate negatively.
However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the factors surrounding these concepts do not change in a negative direction for participants and non-‐participants, because this is considered to create a negative impact on these concepts.
Discussion and conclusion: The thesis brings new and original ways to Work actively with the dropout-rate in the current Danish mother-child cohorts, and although there might be selection bias in the data Collection and it can be advantageously for the results of the thesis with a quantification, the results are innovative, manageable and possible to transfer to the daily Work of the cohorts.
Since1988,The World Health Organization (WHO) has increased its focus on improving public health, which has derived its focus on improving public health, which has derived a variety of health‐promoting efforts, including an increased focus on Health research in Denmark. Health research is a broad field, but one of the areas is the Development of cohort studies, including the mother‐child cohorts.These types of cohort studies provide a Unique opportunity to investigate the triggers of disease, because the data Collection starts during the woman's pregnancy.
The data Collection continues after the birth where it is primarily the child
WHO is being examined. There are several large mother‐child cohorts,
both in Denmark and abroad, and they provide important knowledge about
Health and disease. However, a cohort are challenged by the fact that it
enrolls participants for a long period of time, and therefore requires special
attention to minimize the drop‐out rate, since a high drop-‐out rate will have
consequences for the results of the cohort.
It is remarkable that none of the current mother-‐child cohorts are
concerned about these issues and do more to investigate why
some participants drop out and why some choose not to participate in a mother-‐child cohort.
This is considered an important subject in order to maintain participants in a mother‐child cohort, why this thesis seeks to obtain knowledge about the causes
of drop-out, how to retain partcipants and rejection of mother-‐child cohorts.
Material and methods Data was collected by using qualitative, semi-‐structured
interviews with 16 participants and non-participants from the two current Danish
mother-child cohorts; Odense Børnekohorte (OBK) and Better Health for Mother
and Child (BSMB).
Furthermore, it was estimated that the concepts of economics and availability only had a negative impact on a few informants, and thus it was argued that these terms do not affect the dropout-‐rate negatively.
However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the factors surrounding these concepts do not change in a negative direction for participants and non-‐participants, because this is considered to create a negative impact on these concepts.
Discussion and conclusion: The thesis brings new and original ways to Work actively with the dropout-rate in the current Danish mother-child cohorts, and although there might be selection bias in the data Collection and it can be advantageously for the results of the thesis with a quantification, the results are innovative, manageable and possible to transfer to the daily Work of the cohorts.
Originalsprog | Dansk |
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Status | Udgivet - 2014 |