Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide

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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 20, 2011 - Medical - 544 pages
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys—the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, California Health Interview Survey, and National Dental Malpractice Survey—are detailed that illustrate the range of design alternatives available at each stage of developing a survey and provide a sound basis for choosing among them.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 THINKING ABOUT TOPICS FOR HEALTH SURVEYS
1
Chapter 2 MATCHING THE SURVEY DESIGN TO SURVEY OBJECTIVES
27
Chapter 3 DEFINING AND CLARIFYING THE SURVEY VARIABLES
48
Chapter 4 THINKING THROUGH THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES
81
Chapter 5 CHOOSING THE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
100
Chapter 6 DECIDING WHO WILL BE IN THE SAMPLE
124
Chapter 7 DECIDING HOW MANY WILL BE IN THE SAMPLE
154
Chapter 8 GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR FORMULATING QUESTIONS
194
Chapter 14 PREPARING THE DATA FOR ANALYSIS
340
Chapter 15 PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA
360
Chapter 16 WRITING THE RESEARCH REPORT
391
Resource A PERSONAL INTERVIEW SURVEY UNICEF MULTIPLE INDICATOR CLUSTER SURVEY MICS2ENDDECADE STUDY
405
Resource B TELEPHONE INTERVIEW SURVEY CALIFORNIA HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY CHIS2001
407
Resource C MAIL QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY NATIONAL DENTAL MALPRACTICE SURVEY
408
Resource D SELECTED SOURCES ON HEALTH SURVEYS
433
Resource E SELECTED EXAMPLES OF HEALTH SURVEYS
442

Chapter 9 FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH
221
Chapter 10 FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS AND BEHAVIOR
245
Chapter 11 FORMULATING QUESTIONS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES
268
Chapter 12 GUIDELINES FOR FORMATTING THE QUESTIONNAIRE
288
Chapter 13 MONITORING AND CARRYING OUT THE SURVEY
311
REFERENCES
451
NAME INDEX
495
SUBJECT INDEX
505
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About the author (2011)

LU ANN ADAY, PHD, is the Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor in Public Health and Medicine at the University of Texas School of Public Health. She is the author of many books, including Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity (1st ed., 1993; 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., 2004); At Risk in America: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States (1st ed., 1993; 2nd ed., 2001); and Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation (2005). Dr. Aday is a fellow of AcademyHealth (formerly the Association for Health Services Research) and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

LLEWELLYN JOSEPH CORNELIUS, PHD, is Professor of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work. He is also Associate Director of the Institute for Human Services Policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana-Legon, School of Public Health, Department of Sociology and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. He also has been a fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

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