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Questionnaire development for the Lolland-Falster Health Study, Denmark: an iterative and incremental process
- Source :
- BMC Medical Research Methodology, Egholm, C L, Packness, A, Stokholm, J, Rasmussen, K, Ellervik, C, Simonsen, E, Christensen, A I & Jepsen, R 2020, ' Questionnaire development for the Lolland-Falster Health Study, Denmark : an iterative and incremental process ', BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 20, 52 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00931-1, Egholm, C L, Packness, A, Stokholm, J, Rasmussen, K, Ellervik, C, Simonsen, E, Christensen, A I & Jepsen, R 2020, ' Questionnaire development for the Lolland-Falster Health Study, Denmark: an iterative and incremental process ', B M C Medical Research Methodology, vol. 20, 52 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00931-1, BMC Medical Research Methodology, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2020.
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Abstract
- In composing multi-thematic questionnaires for the Lolland-Falster Health Study (LOFUS), we faced a range of challenges, for which we found limited guidance in the literature. LOFUS is a household-based population study covering multiple medical and social research areas and targeting the mixed rural-provincial population of 103,000 persons on the Danish islands Lolland and Falster. Households were randomly selected for invitation. In this paper, we describe and discuss challenges in developing the questionnaires related to stakeholders, content of the questionnaire, and the process itself. The development process was characterised by loops of learning and can be described as an iterative and incremental process. We propose recommendations to researchers and administrators involved in similar development processes, including awareness of the non-linearity and complexity of the process, a need for negotiations and navigation among multiple stakeholders, and acknowledgement of pragmatism as an inherent part of decisions made in the process.
- Subjects :
- Questionnaires
Rural Population
Knowledge management
Lolland-Falster Health study
Epidemiology
Process (engineering)
media_common.quotation_subject
Denmark
Acknowledgement
Population
Scales
Health Informatics
Loops of learning
Rural Health
Danish
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Iterative and incremental process
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Sociology
LOFUS
education
Questionnaire development
Items
Incremental process
media_common
Islands
lcsh:R5-920
education.field_of_study
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
language.human_language
Social research
Negotiation
language
Commentary
Health Services Research
lcsh:Medicine (General)
0305 other medical science
business
Population study
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712288
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ef5809b4d28c0899dac8336588e43461