TY - JOUR
T1 - Questionnaire development for the Lolland-Falster Health Study, Denmark
T2 - an iterative and incremental process
AU - Egholm, Cecilie Lindström
AU - Packness, Aake
AU - Stokholm, Jakob
AU - Rasmussen, Knud
AU - Ellervik, Christina
AU - Simonsen, Erik
AU - Christensen, Anne Illemann
AU - Jepsen, Randi
PY - 2020/3/3
Y1 - 2020/3/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Denmark
KW - Health Services Research/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Islands
KW - Rural Health/statistics & numerical data
KW - Rural Population/statistics & numerical data
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
U2 - 10.1186/s12874-020-00931-1
DO - 10.1186/s12874-020-00931-1
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32126988
SN - 1471-2288
VL - 20
SP - 52
JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology
JF - BMC Medical Research Methodology
IS - 1
ER -