Research Methodology 2: Developing a Questionnaire Flashcards

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Define research

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A study which is trying to generate new knowledge about patients or conditions or healthcare
services that will be generally true across a wider population than it is actually studying.

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what is a service evaluation

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Evaluate or assess some part of a local healthcare service
The aim is to improve the service based on the evidence that you collect
Results from your project will only feed back into this particular service, they will not apply to
patients, or services, across the country

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What are the 5 steps of the audit cycle?

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  1. identify
  2. method
  3. analyse
  4. change
  5. monitor
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what is the best method for finding information

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Patient Notes/Records review
• Survey of staff (paper/online)
• Survey of patients (paper/online)
• Telephone interview
• Face to face interviews
• Focus groups
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what are the problems with using patient notes?

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  1. limited types of information
  2. tailor your planned analysis to objective and may not be able to use that
  3. data may be categorical or continous.
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give some examples of demographic

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ethnicity

age

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how to choose categories ?

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national office of statistics

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list some Q types

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◦ Closed questions with yes/no or categorical answers

◦ Closed statements answered on a scale

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define likert scale

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Respondents specify level of agreement or disagreement

on a symmetric scale for a series of statements.

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what are the 5 assumptions for Likert Scales?

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Bipolar scaling method, measuring either positive or negative response to a statement
2) Likert scaling assumes distances between each response are equal, that is, the distance
between each candidate value is the same (also called interval level data)
3) Each response gets a number e.g. 1 to 5
4) Usually multiple statements, all related to each other, are posed
5) Scores are summed across statements to form a scale – all items have equal weight

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define social desirability

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◦ Social desirability bias is when the respondent provides an answer which is more socially acceptable than his /
her true attitude or behaviour

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what are the types of data you can produce from a questionnaire

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  1. binary categorical
  2. multiple catgorical
  3. open
  4. scale
  5. multiple category/multiple response
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how would you compare likert answers between 2 groups?

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t-test

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give some recruiting options

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◦ Convenience/ Self-identified/ Consecutive

◦ Random/stratified sampling

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