Design and use of questionnaires: a review of best practice applicable to surveys of health service staff and patients.

By E. McColl, A. Jacoby, L. Thomas, J. Soutter, C. Bamford, N. Steen, R. P. Thomas, E. Harvey, A. Garratt, J. Bond. Health Technology Assessment, 2001

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Questionnaires are often used to collect primaryquantitative data from patients and healthcareprofessionals. The aim is to gather valid, reliable,unbiased and discriminatory data from a represen-tative sample of respondents. However, theinformation yielded is subject to error and biasfrom a range of sources. Close attention to issuesof questionnaire design and survey administrationcan reduce these errors.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Qualitative and quantitative effects of reintroduced beavers on stream fish (2012, methodology): “Following conventional wisdom (McColl et al. 2001), the sequencing and position of Likert items within the questionnaire was designed so that general fields preceded specific areas.”
A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of clinicians (2008, background): “Moreover, the manner in which question stems and responses are synthesized and presented can influence potential respondents’ decisions to initiate and complete a questionnaire.(3)”
The prevalence of neck pain in the world population: a systematic critical review of the literature (2006, background): “First, wording of the questions and use of different manikins may affect the results [37, 49, 50 ].”
The COMET Handbook: version 1.0 (2017, background): “It has also been suggested that if there is evidence that respondents have stronger opinions on some items than others these should be placed first [118].”
A reliable and valid questionnaire was developed to measure computer vision syndrome at the workplace. (2015, background): “In designing the response options, the general guidelines were respected [30,31].”