title: Survey return rates using a covering letter signed by a graduate student or faculty member.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43614, USA. .
authors.forename: Tracy A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Szirony
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Susan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Telljohann
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wolfe
mesh_terms: 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