Questionnaires and postal research: more than just high response rates

Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To identify methods to increase response to postal questionnaires. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of any method to influence response to postal questionnaires. STUDIES REVIEWED 292 randomised controlled trials including 258 315 participants INTERVENTION REVIEWED: 75 strategies for influencing response to postal questionnaires. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The p...

Factors affecting response to postal questionnaires.

Epidemiological studies of chronic diseases often use data gathered individually from many persons, rather than remaining restricted to pre-recorded data. Generally this is done by personal interview, an expensive, time-consuming procedure. The increasing educational level and social consciousness of the population suggest that a carefully designed, highly objective postal questionnaire could s...

More than just vanilla.

More than just translation: challenges and opportunities in translingual research

With research in multilingual and intercultural settings becoming more and more common, issues around “translation” have attracted increasing attention in the social sciences. Drawing on their first-hand experiences of doing research in multilingual settings, the authors suggest that processes of translation create moments of friction and hesitation that, in turn, allow for the production of ne...

Accuracy of postal questionnaires.

Dear Sir, Having recently completed the data interpretation of a postal questionnaire of 'all' Otolaryngologists in the British Isles, we read with interest the recent correspondence on the subject of the accuracy of this means of gathering information. (November 1989, 1103), and of the validity of the numbers questioned and responding. Like the correspondents, we also had great difficulty in c...