Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire

Petra M Boynton; Trisha Greenhalgh

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312

Selecting, designing, and developing your questionnaire

BMJ. 2004 May 29;328(7451):1312-5. doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1312.

Authors

Petra M Boynton¹, Trisha Greenhalgh

Affiliation

¹ Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Archway Campus, London N19 5LW. p.boynton@pcps.ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Anybody can write down a list of questions and photocopy it, but producing worthwhile and generalisable data from questionnaires needs careful planning and imaginative design

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Data Collection / methods
Decision Making
Research Design
Sampling Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires / standards*