Survey return rates using a covering letter signed by a graduate student or faculty member.
This study assessed differences in response rate when the author of a survey was identified as a graduate student or a faculty member. A survey on research ethics was mailed to 500 nurse faculty members with half of the covering letters signed as a graduate student and half signed as a faculty member. There were 388 (78%) out of a possible 495 surveys returned. The response rate was 78% for graduate student and 77% for faculty identifications, not significant by chi-square test.
Szirony
Tracy A
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School of Nursing, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43614, USA. .
Price
James H
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Telljohann
Susan K
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Wolfe
Elizabeth
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D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data