Questionnaire Response

Not another questionnaire! Maximizing the response rate, predicting non-response and assessing non-response bias in postal questionnaire studies of GPs.

BACKGROUND Non-response is an important potential source of bias in survey research. With evidence of falling response rates from GPs, it is of increasing importance when undertaking postal questionnaire surveys of GPs to seek to maximize response rates and evaluate the potential for non-response bias. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to investigate the effectiveness of follow-up procedures when undert...

Considerations about the response format of the airways questionnaire 20.

The author has reported to the ACCP that no significant conflicts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article. Reproduction of this article is prohibited without written permission from the American College of Chest Physicians (www.chestjournal. org/misc/reprints.shtml). Correspondence to: Scott E. Sinclair, MD, FCCP, University...

Investigating opportunities to increase the response of a web questionnaire

Aggression Questionnaire hostility scale predicts anger in response to mistreatment.

We tested the hypotheses that the hostility and anger scales of the Buss and Perry (1992) [Buss, A. H. & Perry, M. (1992). The Aggression Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 452-459.] Aggression Questionnaire would predict anger in college students in response to mistreatment. We found low and high hostility groups did not differ in anger at baseline or after comple...

Improving trial questionnaire response rates using behaviour change theory

A number of options to improve response rates to postal questionnaires in trials have been reported, but the evidence to support the success of some of these approaches is limited. Robust, linked, evaluation of novel strategies is needed to build a coherent evidence base. The response rate to the first of three annual postal questionnaires was lower than expected in the NIHR HTA funded IQuaD (I...