نتایج جستجو برای: surveys and questionnaires

تعداد نتایج: 16833220  

Journal: :The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1998
E F Kaner C A Haighton B R McAvoy

BACKGROUND Response rates by general practitioners (GPs) to postal surveys have consistently fallen, compromising the validity of this type of research. If postal survey work is to continue we need to understand GPs' reasons for not participating and respond appropriately. AIM To investigate GPs' reasons for not responding to postal surveys. METHOD A qualitative study was carried out to det...

Journal: :Family practice 2011
Samuel T Creavin Alexandra L Creavin Christian D Mallen

BACKGROUND There is a general consensus that postal surveys of physicians have low response rates. Recent systematic reviews have provided an improved evidence base to help researchers maximize response rates to self-completion questionnaires but to date, there is no comprehensive analysis of whether response rates have improved. OBJECTIVE To determine a contemporary estimate for the mean res...

Journal: :The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2008
Els Mathieu Josef Amann Abel Eigege Frank Richards Yao Sodahlon

The lymphatic filariasis elimination program aims not only to stop transmission, but also to alleviate morbidity. Although geographically limited morbidity projects exist, few have been implemented nationally. For advocacy and planning, the program coordinators need prevalence estimates that are currently rarely available. This article compares several approaches to estimate morbidity prevalenc...

Journal: :Nihon eiseigaku zasshi. Japanese journal of hygiene 1987
N Iwata K Saito

In Japan, however, epidemiologic studies in these areas are sparse. One of the reasons may be due to the fact that there have been few conventional questionnaires applicable to such epidemiologic surveys. Recently, however, the validity and reliability of the Zung self-rating depression scale9) have been tested by Kawakami and Koizumi10). Several investigations of subjective health status have ...

2014
Maren Formazin Hermann Burr Cecilie Aagestad Tore Tynes Sannie Vester Thorsen Merja Perkio-Makela Clara Isabel Díaz Aramburu Francisco Javier Pinilla García Luz Galiana Blanco Greet Vermeylen Agnes Parent-Thirion Wendela Hooftman Irene Houtman

BACKGROUND In most countries in the EU, national surveys are used to monitor working conditions and health. Since the development processes behind the various surveys are not necessarily theoretical, but certainly practical and political, the extent of similarity among the dimensions covered in these surveys has been unclear. Another interesting question is whether prominent models from scienti...

2013
Jonathan D. King Joy Buolamwini Elizabeth A. Cromwell Andrew Panfel Tesfaye Teferi Mulat Zerihun Berhanu Melak Jessica Watson Zerihun Tadesse Danielle Vienneau Jeremiah Ngondi Jürg Utzinger Peter Odermatt Paul M. Emerson

BACKGROUND Large cross-sectional household surveys are common for measuring indicators of neglected tropical disease control programs. As an alternative to standard paper-based data collection, we utilized novel paperless technology to collect data electronically from over 12,000 households in Ethiopia. METHODOLOGY We conducted a needs assessment to design an Android-based electronic data col...

Journal: :Spine 2002
Brett Hanscom Jon D Lurie Karen Homa James N Weinstein

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective data quality analysis was conducted. OBJECTIVE To compare missing response rates and internal consistency between computerized and paper surveys administered to spine patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Computerized patient surveys have been shown to offer numerous advantages over traditional paper surveys. It has been assumed that computerized surveys also imp...

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