Sentence examples for mail respondents from inspiring English sources
This may be due to a mode effect, because (telephone) interviewees are reported to respond more positively than mail respondents [ 32].
In all cases, we considered the first mail respondents as the reference group.
The "don't know" option was used more often by mail respondents (10 – 24%) than by telephone respondents (2 – 4%).
Among telephone respondents, there was a larger percentage of persons with a further and higher education than among mail respondents (11.8% versus 7.3%) and a larger percentage of persons who had always lived alone (9.1% versus 5.3%).
The tendency to use the extreme response categories among phone respondents relative to mail respondents was quantified by the odds ratio for extreme replies versus the pooled middle categories, and the tendency to reply more positively was quantified by the odds ratio estimated in the proportional odds model.
Surveys received after this period were categorized "second mailing respondents".
Surveys returned before the mailing of the second questionnaire were categorized "first mailing respondents".
Two months after the first mailing, respondents were randomised at the practice level to one of the four study groups and then mailed the second survey.
We recorded the gender, practice location, medical specialty and years since graduation for these doctors and compared these demographic characteristics for mail survey respondents and non-respondents and with the overall commercial database from which the sample was chosen.
Of the 100 questionnaires sent by mail, two respondents had only filled in remarks on the questionnaire and 16 patients were lost to follow-up despite several attempts of telephone and mail contact.
Three months following completion of the mail survey, respondents who had indicated on the questionnaire that they intended to use the decision aid in their clinical practice were administered a brief follow-up telephone survey and provided with a $10 (CAD) honorarium.
