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Article: Techniques for screening and cleaning data for analysis.
- Article from:
- American Journal of Health Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Health professionals in the area of health promotion/education frequently need to collect and analyze data for a variety of reasons, such as needs assessment, program planning and implementation, evaluation, budget justification, trend identification, projections or assessment of knowledge, attitudes and/or behaviors. Data may be collected in many settings, including schools, colleges/universities, community agencies, worksites and healthcare settings. They may be collected in a variety of ways, including from students in a classroom, clients in a community agency, or patients/consumers in a healthcare setting. Data also may be collected via mail survey, phone or personal ...