Use of retrospective (anamnestic) method in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in social gerontology

Sachuk, N.N.; Minaeva, V.P.

Vestnik Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk SSSR 1990(1): 48-54

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0002-3027
PMID: 2330754
Document Number: 349161
The efficacy of using the retrospective method to obtain additional information for both cross-sectional and prospective studies is demonstrated. The life pattern, time course of individual or familial health-status changes in the periods preceding the prospective study enhance the informative value of study findings, provide monitoring the stability of the influence of the studied health factors, and make them epidemiological.

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