If you had the opportunity to run a large household health survey in your country, what would be included and why? Just remember that interviews longer than 1 or 1.5 hours are a challenge for respondents...
And how would you implement the study? Face-to-face, phone, video, internet, other? Mixed-mode?
Lipid profile, glukosa, inflammation and obesity measurement. Characteristic of non communicable disease such as metabolic syndrome, cancer, CVD, DM etc,
Hi Henny, thanks for this, much appreciated. These are all good measures - and relevant to the major burden of disease profiles in Indonesia. Many of the biomarkers you propose would require a fasting sample - what are the logistical and cost implications for doing this in a national level study for you?
Could you also be more specific about "characteristics" of selected high burden NCDs? A set of questions asking about presence, duration, symptoms, treatment and impact?
Hi Paul. All that parameters do not need fasting if at screening level to define high risk people and low risk people. Lipid profile actually do not alter significantly before and after meal.
Lipid profile and glucose can be tested by point of care device. Inflammation marker can be tested from dried blood specimen. For dried blood testing, especially for hs-CRP and HbA1c, this user guide might be useful: IFLS Wave 5 Dried Blood Spot Data User Guide.
The above characteristic you mention above can be applied. Type of disease and any complications and comorbidities that appear in the subjects can be documented as well.
I hope this answer will help. Thanks.
Henny
Brilliant, Henny, many thanks. I will indeed look again at the IFLS DBS guide Working Paper IFLS Wave 5 Dried Blood Spot Data User Guide
I would be keen to also look at the IFLS sampling strategy/frame. Do you also know if SurveyMeter has been working with Badan Pusat Statistik to include IFLS into its data archives?
Kindly, Paul
Hi Paul,
As far as I knew, SurveyMeter have not collaborate with BPS. For sure, would you please contact Bondan Sikoki, the Director of SurveyMeter, who know well the detail about their collaboration.
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