Patients only report reactions which they consider important; they do not instead report the ones which they consider non-serious, unless they are specifically questioned (which has not been done in this study).
Because people were asked very open-ended questions without prompting, the few responses that were offered by nearly 100% of respondents likely indicate a very strong relevance, but it is difficult to draw scientific conclusions about responses given by <50% of respondents since other respondents might have agreed had they been specifically questioned on the value of these ideas.
The participants were interviewed annually until 1994 and are still interviewed every-other year, and in '79, '82, '87 and 2004, they were specifically questioned about their views on gender roles.
Patients will seldom inform their physicians about their glaucoma therapy unless they are specifically questioned about the use of "eye medications".
Surgical and radiation treatments can result in lifelong urinary and bowel complications such as urinary incontinence, impotence rectal bleeding and diarrhoea, which are known to be under-reported unless patients are specifically questioned.
Micrographia was identified in 63.2% of the PD cohort when subjects were specifically questioned for micrographia on history and detected in nearly 50% of the cohort when bedside handwriting test was used for quantitative assessment.
While information on MHT in 1997 1999 was obtained in the context of a detailed personal interview on all current medications, during the 2003 2004 telephone survey interview women were specifically questioned about current as well as past MHT use.
Relatives/carers were specifically questioned about any formal dementia diagnosis, details of the temporal course and features of cognitive decline, and other relevant history such as stroke, falls or hallucinations.
And it was specifically the question: What natural (or "secondary") causes were responsible for the advent of the modern fauna, the currently extant species of animals, plants, fungi, and micro-organisms (to the extent the latter were known and considered at the beginning of the nineteenth century)?
