INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES, cilt.20, sa.1, ss.33-38, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Telephone surveys are less expensive and time-consuming for both interviewers and interviewees, with similar or even higher response rates than face-to-face interviews. In rheumatology, telephone technique has been used in a number of epidemiologic studies. In the present study, we conducted a telephone survey for screening inflammatory back pain (IBP) in the community.