W E Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 6160941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W E Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | W E |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does anonymity increase response rate in postal questionnaire surveys about sensitive subjects? A randomised trial
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to determine whether complete anonymity improves the response rates to a postal questionnaire. DESIGN--The study derived from a series of postal surveys on AIDS knowledge conducted on six different dates in 1986 and 1987. The sample was randomly divided into two, each group being sent the same questionnaire. One group was informed that the replies were anonymous, the other that they were not. The latter w…
A useless raffle
A mailed questionnaire was sent to 2712 subjects asking about respiratory symptoms, and a raffle for three prizes of 50 pounds, 30 pounds, and 20 pounds was organised. The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls
Chest pain in women
The London School of Hygiene cardiovascular questionnaire was administered by interviewers in a community survey of 1428 women aged 45-74 living in the Rhondda Fach in south Wales. The results were analysed after a 12 year follow up for mortality. The prevalence of angina was similar to that of a Swiss population, where the method of administration of the questionnaire was similar. The risk of dying associated with angina was some 50% higher than…
Effect on doctors' work load of a campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms
A public health education campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms was held in Southampton during February 1981. General practitioners kept a record of women Consulting them about breast symptoms. The results were confounded by a recording behaviour effect but provided no evidence of a pronounced increase in their work load. There was no overall increase in hospital outpatient work load
Risk factors for myocardial infarction in young women
Seventy-seven women discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction and 207 control patients were investigated. All were under 45 years of age at the time of admission. Heavy cigarette smoking, reported treatment for pre-eclamptic toxaemia, and type II hyperlipoproteinaemia were found to be independent risk factors for myocardial infarction. Reported treatment for hypertension and diabetes are probably also independently associ…
Migraine in general practitioners
A self-administerd questionnaire was posted to 1 129 medical general practitioners in an urban and in a rural area of England. The prevalences of headache, and of the features of migraine, in the year immediately preceding the survey were similar in the two areas. After allowing for the different age and sex composition of the populations, these prevalences were also similar to those found in the general population during an early survey in Wales…
ESR in the community
Evaluation of social therapy in chronic alcoholism
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE(3) the absence of a clear effect of birthweight on the mental performance.Two alternative hypotheses are: (1) that survivors of famine-affected cohorts do not represent the total born, so that those who died in early life might have been ad- versely affected.In other words, there was an all-or-none effect: the exposed fetus either died from the insult or survived unimpaired; (2) that postnatal learning was able to comp…
Smoking and neuroticism
Smoking has been related to several aspects of personality but the association with neuroticism is rather uncertain (Eysenck, 1965). The Royal College of Physicians (1962), in their first report, Smoking and Health, suggested that smokers tend to be more neurotic. This is supported by the view of the U.S. Public Health Service (1964) that there is a relationship between the smoking habit and a personality configuration which is vaguely described …
A randomized controlled trial of ergotamine tartrate
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (4.O41) with the medical staffing ratio, but hospital utilization factors together accounted for a higher proportion of the variance in mean stay after operation.Overall only 38 % of the variance was 'explained' by the factors in the equation
Prevalence of symptoms of urinary tract infection in women
Pilot survey of haemoglobin and plasma urea concentration in a random sample of adults in Wales 1965-66
In epidemiology it is essential that a definite physiological or pathological condition should be studied in a defined community. These requirements are sometimes difficult to meet because, although the population to be studied should be representa tive of a large community, the measurements involved usually require elaborate apparatus and clinical examination rooms which are not easily mobile. Hitherto it has been the policy of the Epidemio logi…
Community study of urinary pH and osmolality
In a previous communication (Asscher, Sussman, Waters, Davis, and Chick, 1966), it was shown that urine obtained from females supports the growth of E. coli, the commonest urinary pathogen, better than that from males. This difference was dependent on a sex difference in urinary pH and osmolality, the urines of females being significantly more often at suitable pH and osmolality for the growth of E. coli than those of males. This paper describes …
Does anonymity increase response rate in postal questionnaire surveys about sensitive subjects? A randomised trial
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to determine whether complete anonymity improves the response rates to a postal questionnaire. DESIGN--The study derived from a series of postal surveys on AIDS knowledge conducted on six different dates in 1986 and 1987. The sample was randomly divided into two, each group being sent the same questionnaire. One group was informed that the replies were anonymous, the other that they were not. The latter w…
A useless raffle
A mailed questionnaire was sent to 2712 subjects asking about respiratory symptoms, and a raffle for three prizes of 50 pounds, 30 pounds, and 20 pounds was organised. The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls
Effect on doctors' work load of a campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms
A public health education campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms was held in Southampton during February 1981. General practitioners kept a record of women Consulting them about breast symptoms. The results were confounded by a recording behaviour effect but provided no evidence of a pronounced increase in their work load. There was no overall increase in hospital outpatient work load
Community study of urinary pH and osmolality
In a previous communication (Asscher, Sussman, Waters, Davis, and Chick, 1966), it was shown that urine obtained from females supports the growth of E. coli, the commonest urinary pathogen, better than that from males. This difference was dependent on a sex difference in urinary pH and osmolality, the urines of females being significantly more often at suitable pH and osmolality for the growth of E. coli than those of males. This paper describes …
Pilot survey of haemoglobin and plasma urea concentration in a random sample of adults in Wales 1965-66
In epidemiology it is essential that a definite physiological or pathological condition should be studied in a defined community. These requirements are sometimes difficult to meet because, although the population to be studied should be representa tive of a large community, the measurements involved usually require elaborate apparatus and clinical examination rooms which are not easily mobile. Hitherto it has been the policy of the Epidemio logi…
Prevalence of symptoms of urinary tract infection in women
A randomized controlled trial of ergotamine tartrate
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (4.O41) with the medical staffing ratio, but hospital utilization factors together accounted for a higher proportion of the variance in mean stay after operation.Overall only 38 % of the variance was 'explained' by the factors in the equation
Smoking and neuroticism
Smoking has been related to several aspects of personality but the association with neuroticism is rather uncertain (Eysenck, 1965). The Royal College of Physicians (1962), in their first report, Smoking and Health, suggested that smokers tend to be more neurotic. This is supported by the view of the U.S. Public Health Service (1964) that there is a relationship between the smoking habit and a personality configuration which is vaguely described …
Evaluation of social therapy in chronic alcoholism
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE(3) the absence of a clear effect of birthweight on the mental performance.Two alternative hypotheses are: (1) that survivors of famine-affected cohorts do not represent the total born, so that those who died in early life might have been ad- versely affected.In other words, there was an all-or-none effect: the exposed fetus either died from the insult or survived unimpaired; (2) that postnatal learning was able to comp…
ESR in the community
Migraine in general practitioners
A self-administerd questionnaire was posted to 1 129 medical general practitioners in an urban and in a rural area of England. The prevalences of headache, and of the features of migraine, in the year immediately preceding the survey were similar in the two areas. After allowing for the different age and sex composition of the populations, these prevalences were also similar to those found in the general population during an early survey in Wales…
Risk factors for myocardial infarction in young women
Seventy-seven women discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction and 207 control patients were investigated. All were under 45 years of age at the time of admission. Heavy cigarette smoking, reported treatment for pre-eclamptic toxaemia, and type II hyperlipoproteinaemia were found to be independent risk factors for myocardial infarction. Reported treatment for hypertension and diabetes are probably also independently associ…
Effect on doctors' work load of a campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms
A public health education campaign to encourage early reporting of breast symptoms was held in Southampton during February 1981. General practitioners kept a record of women Consulting them about breast symptoms. The results were confounded by a recording behaviour effect but provided no evidence of a pronounced increase in their work load. There was no overall increase in hospital outpatient work load
Chest pain in women
The London School of Hygiene cardiovascular questionnaire was administered by interviewers in a community survey of 1428 women aged 45-74 living in the Rhondda Fach in south Wales. The results were analysed after a 12 year follow up for mortality. The prevalence of angina was similar to that of a Swiss population, where the method of administration of the questionnaire was similar. The risk of dying associated with angina was some 50% higher than…
A useless raffle
A mailed questionnaire was sent to 2712 subjects asking about respiratory symptoms, and a raffle for three prizes of 50 pounds, 30 pounds, and 20 pounds was organised. The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls
Does anonymity increase response rate in postal questionnaire surveys about sensitive subjects? A randomised trial
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to determine whether complete anonymity improves the response rates to a postal questionnaire. DESIGN--The study derived from a series of postal surveys on AIDS knowledge conducted on six different dates in 1986 and 1987. The sample was randomly divided into two, each group being sent the same questionnaire. One group was informed that the replies were anonymous, the other that they were not. The latter w…
Medicine (13 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Surgery (5 works) · Surgery (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Randomized controlled trial (3 works)