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Patient Health Questionnaire 15

Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

Research Methods for Health Sciences?

I need help with creating cover letter to the potential participants. Explain the purpose of the questionnaire in the form of a cover letter to potential participants. Be sure to include why it is important for them to participate and encouragement to do so.

2. Create an appropriate questionnaire for a study using ethnology research for Dr. Know’s patients. You must include 10-15 questions of varying types, including at a minimum:

• Two fixed alternative questions that have only two choices for the answer,

• Five fixed alternative questions with 4-5 potential answers,

• One open-ended question, and

• Any other combination of questions to make a minimum of 10 questions

well in case if you’re unsure as to what ‘fixed alternative Q’s’ etc mean…

fixed alternative Q with 2 choices would be a ‘Yes/No’ or ‘True/False’ question
fixed alt Q with 4-5 choices would be a standard multiple choice with options A/B/C/D
open ended would be any question that requires more than a ‘yes/no’ answer…it would require an explanation and answerer would be given room to write a relatively extended response

as for the letter. important things i reckon you should mention:

- what the study’s about
- why you’re doing the study
- what the questions will be about
- that it’s not compulsory, but that it would be helpful if they took part because: ethnicity is a determinant of health…therefore, ethnology is an important area of study in health science. the more participants we obtain information from, the more we’ll be able to progress our understanding of the relatinship between ethnicity/health — something along those lines
- that their results will remain confidential
- that they have the option of submitting their questionnaire anonymously
- that they can contact someone (maybe Dr. Know) if they want to know more/have any questions