title: [Planning of a questionnaire survey].
abstract: A questionnaire will prove most useful, when it has been tested, is reliable, felicitous, reproducible, technically sound, clear and when needed, identifiable. Sending, reception and storage of the form must also be planned beforehand in order to guarantee a good start for analyzing the results. Significant factors related to the answering to questionnaire surveys include written feedback received by the participants after the study, fees, brevity, readability, personality of the forms and statements in the covering letter of benefits gained by the study management and the society subsequent to answering.
authors.affiliation: UKK-instituutti, Tampere.
authors.forename: Riitta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luoto
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires