title: Asking the right questions and getting meaningful responses: 12 tips on developing and administering a questionnaire survey for healthcare professionals.
abstract: Questionnaires provide a useful and versatile tool for new and occasional researchers, and can be applied to a wide range of topics. This paper provides simple guidance on some of the potential pitfalls in developing and running a questionnaire study, and how to avoid them. Each tip is illustrated with a real-life example from the development of a UK-wide questionnaire survey of trainee doctors and their educational supervisors.
authors.affiliation: The Northern Deanery, NHS North East Education, 10-12 Framlington Place Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. bryan.burford@cddft.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burford
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hesketh
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wakeling
authors.forename: Gellisse
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bagnall
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Colthart
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Illing
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kergon
authors.forename: Gill
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morrow
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spencer
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Zwanenberg
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom