We suspect that the questionnaire may have generated anxiety in a small number of people; measures to reduce this may improve future response.
Only 41.7% of screened patients agreed to participate and complete our study questionnaires; we suspect that these study participants were more adherent than the overall population of screened patients.
The research assistants were recruited from the school of public health and trained in interviewing TB suspects using the questionnaire.
She has high hopes of the new Equal Pay questionnaire for employees who suspect they are being paid unfairly, which is due to be published on April 6.
Furthermore, we suspect that few parents were motivated to complete questionnaires immediately after PICU discharge due to possibly continuing stress of the hospital admission.
Trained clinicians repeated a questionnaire for symptoms and examined the TB suspect.
However, most returned questionnaires were completed comprehensively, leaving no reason to suspect differential recall between case-patients and others.
Identified suspects completed an additional questionnaire regarding their social-economic situation, smoking status, and the presence of TB related symptoms in the preceding six months (cough, fever, weight loss, chest pain and haemoptysis).
Since federal courts said that Florida's blanket testing scheme violated the Constitution in 2011, states have opted for preliminary questionnaires so that they only test people they can reasonably suspect of drug abuse.
The Papoloses' research was based on responses to questionnaires that they distributed through BPParents, whose several hundred members are parents who suspect that their children have the disorder.
