Designing a Questionnaire
Home Computer Application in Pharmacy Previous Year's Question Paper EVS Notes Time Table Objective: Design a Questionnaire using a word processing package to gather information about a particular diseases. General Format to a Questionnaire: Theory: A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents. The questionnaire was invented by the Statistical Society of London in 1838. Questionnaire construction Question type: A questionnaire consists of a number of questions that the respondent has to answer in a set format. A distinction is made between open-ended and closed-ended questions. An open-ended question asks the respondent to formulate his own answer, whereas a closed-ended question has the respondent pick an answer from a given number of options. Four types of response scales for closed-ended questions are distinguished: Dichotomous, where the respondent has two opti...