Changing questionnaire structure to make questions chronologic does not substantially affect the answers given, but may make a questionnaire more acceptable and easier to complete and speed up returns.
It also allows the integration of multiple simultaneous research projects into the department's usual workflow, by dynamically changing the questionnaire experience depending on project participation.
Since the study was a secondary data analysis, indicators of the study variables (hours of care, age, gender, social support, stressful life events, perceived stress, depression, physical function, self-esteem and marital satisfaction) were selected from the Americans' Changing Lives Survey questionnaires, based on face validity.
The aims of the study were: - to investigate test-retest reliability of the Swedish versions of the self-report inventory: FABI and of the "Changing Minds"- questionnaire - to examine the internal consistency of the two instruments Permission to translate the instruments was obtained from the original authors.
Objective To test whether changing a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) on the basis of cognitive theory and testing results in greater accuracy.
We have slightly modified this questionnaire by changing question 5 from 'would you like to talk about it with your doctor' to 'would you like to talk about it with your GP'.
Victoria Battista, an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said the bureau was looking at whether that model needed to be changed, as well as at other possible issues, such as changing response rates to the questionnaire sent out to employers each month.
The "Changing minds" questionnaire displays poor internal consistency reliability and rather problematic overall test-retest reliability.
The results from the "Changing minds" questionnaire display at best a moderate agreement between the test and retest.
For the Changing Minds questionnaire almost one fifth (17.9%) of the items present poor test-retest reliability and the alpha coefficient for the subscales ranges between 0.19 - 0.46.
The fact that the "Changing minds" questionnaire was used as a self-rating instrument and the information in the original studies was obtained through interviews might make a difference.
