Interviews and Variables
Interviewers used standardized computerassisted telephone interview procedures to ask
participants about a variety of mistreatment experiences, potential correlates, and demographic
characteristics. This technique incorporates complex skip-out patterns that ensure
that only relevant questions are asked of participants, greatly enhancing interview efficiency.
Supervisors listened to randomly chosen, real-time telephone interviews while monitoring the interview on their own computers to check each interviewer’s assessment behavior and data entry accuracy at least twice during each shift. Supervisors who detected an error required its correction and discussed the error with the interviewer after the interview. If the error was detected in subsequent. interviews, the interviewer was removed from the study.