questionnaires: systematic review Increasing response rates to postal

By R. Wentz, I. Kwan, P. Edwards, I. Roberts, Mike Clarke, C. DiGuiseppi, Sarah Pratap. 2007

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Exploring physician specialist response rates to web-based surveys (2015, background): “When the topic is of high interest to respondents, potential respondents are more likely to respond to the survey [6,22-24].”
The Use and Effects of Incentives in Surveys (2013, result): “With a few exceptions (to be expected when individual studies are compared with results from metaanalyses), these are consistent with the conclusions reported by Church (1993) and Edwards et al. (2002).2 Interviewer-mediated surveys.”
Improving Survey Response Rates in Online Panels (2016, methodology): “Survey questionnaires are widely used to collect data in the social sciences and are often the only financially viable option if we want to collect information from large, geographically dispersed populations (Edwards et al., 2002, 2009).”
Development of a Common Outcome Data Set for Fall Injury Prevention Trials: The Prevention of Falls Network Europe Consensus (2005, background): “The consensus was that the size of the common outcome data set should be carefully balanced to minimize the burden on respondents and maximize follow-up.(7) Although smaller trials and those conducted in more affluent countries might afford a greater number of and more-intensive measurement protocol”
Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “…that, although there exist at least seven published reviews examining a wide variety of factors influencing response rates in either mail surveys (Edwards et al., 2002; Fox, Crask, & Kim, 1988; Heberlein & Baumgartner, 1978; Singer, 1978; Yu & Cooper, 1983) or in web surveys (Cook, Heath, &…”
The effects of technostress within the context of employee use of ICT (2014, background): “Research demonstrates that a general ‘‘rule of thumb’’ is that the response rate is likely to decrease with the increasing number of questionnaires items (Edwards et al., 2002).”
Testing a Model of Officer Intentions to Quit (2014, background): “First, the length of a survey instrument is directly related to the response rates within a research study (P. Edwards et al., 2002).”
The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research (2011, background): “Reminders are very important between the Delphi rounds (Edwards et al., 2002).”