Overcoming defensive responding in the estimation of prevalence of non-medical use of prescription stimulants

CONCLUSIONS: The setting and mechanism of the survey is likely closely related to the validity of prevalence estimation of sensitive behaviors. This study found that prevalence of sensitive behaviors such as NMUPS is significantly higher when respondents are provided increased anonymity.

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