"Unlike the diary, which depended on recall, P.P.M. records what people are actually exposed to".
By contrast, he notes a huge strength of the Scandinavian study is that "it doesn't depend on recall or participation; it's simple monitoring".
The survey depended on recall, particularly for medical diagnoses, which may have been problematic for some.
Assessment of lifetime prevalence in such studies depends on recall of past depressive episodes.
The discussion already discusses recall biases and includes the following sentence: "The age at menarche depended on recall.
Since the ARIC cohort was limited to persons aged 45 or older, our findings relating to menopause before age 45 had to depend on recall, which may be imprecise.
"You'd go to work in the morning and come back, and they'd have a whole new row of houses," labeled Design A, Design B and so on, depending on the architecture, recalled Helen Robinson, sipping a whiskey and water at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall here.
In general, mothers recall the BW of their children with a high degree of accuracy; 5 9 however, the accuracy varies between studies, possibly depending on the recall period (ranging from days to decades) and maternal characteristics.
For example, Bhandari et al. [ 2] found that physician visits have been underreported by up to 50%, depending on the recall period covered by a questionnaire.
