Sentence examples for telephone methods from inspiring English sources

The purple lines show the average for polls that used "traditional" telephone methods, which rely on live interviewers calling people on their cell or home phones.

Telephone methods resulted in more positive self- and parent proxy reports of children's HRQoL (SMD ≤ 0.27) and MHP (SMD ≤ 0.32) on many scales.

In general, most people are willing to spend 20 to 30 minutes completing one to two surveys in hospital or by mail, but lower enthusiasm was observed for in-home or telephone methods.

There was no effect of the method by which women were surveyed: postal, face-to-face and telephone methods all gave the same result (χ= 1.8, df = 2, p = 0.45).

Third, maintaining high response rates in surveys and longitudinal studies has become increasingly difficult over time, particularly using telephone methods, as the percentage of the population who uses mobile phones increases.

The interim study was an unusual retention strategy that served multiple purposes by administering the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, testing telephone methods for the AMPM dietary recall, inquiring about interim health status changes, and assessing of study acceptability and the likelihood of continuing participation.

Less than 20% (n = 5) were contactable by the telephone method described above.

This allows us to conduct the survey as a face-to-face interview (as opposed to the usual postal self-administered or telephone method).

The instrument takes 6 to 10 minutes to complete and parents may choose either an online or telephone method of completion.

A disadvantage of using a telephone method includes lack of visual cues, e.g. changes in body language, inability to build rapport [ 63– 63].

If the parent chooses the telephone method, the RA calls at monthly intervals to administer the instrument and enter the scores manually into the online system while the parent reports on the child's symptoms.