Web Survey Bibliography
Title Lessons from recruitment to an internet based survey for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: merits of free and fee based methods
Author Davies, B.; Kotter, M. R.
Source JMIR Research Protocols
Year 2017
Access date 23.10.2017
Abstract Background: Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [DCM] is a syndrome of subacute cervical spinal cord compression due to spinal degeneration. Although DCM is common, patient pathways are underdeveloped and a unified treatment approach is lacking. Moreover, fundamental questions, such as the natural history of DCM remain to be answered. The internet has become an attractive tool for medical research, including internet health surveys, with its unrivalled, efficient reach. The most effective recruitment strategy is unknown. Objective: To compare the efficacy of fee based advertisement with alternative free recruitment strategies to a DCM internet health survey. Methods: An internet health survey (Survey Monkey ®), accessed by a new DCM internet platform (myelopathy.org) was created. Using multiple survey collectors and the website Google Analytics ®, the efficacy of fee based recruitment strategies (Google Adwords ®) and free alternatives (including Facebook ®, Twitter ® and Myelopathy.org) were compared. Results: Overall, 772 surveys (513, 66% fully complete) were completed, 305 (40%) from fee based strategies and 455 (59%) from free alternatives. Accounting for researcher time, fee based strategies were more expensive (7.8/responsevs7.8/responsevs3.8/response) and identified a less motivated audience (Click-Through-Rate 5% vs 57%) but were more time efficient for the researcher (2mins/response vs 16mins/response). Facebook ® was the most effective free strategy, providing 239 (31%) responses; a single message to 4 existing communities yielded 133 (17%) responses within 7 days. Conclusions: The internet can efficiently reach large numbers of patients. Free and fee based recruitment strategies both have merits. Facebook communities are a rich resource for internet researchers.
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Web survey bibliography (189)
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- Answering Without Reading: IMCs and Strong Satisficing in Online Surveys; 2017; Anduiza, E.; Galais, C.
- Lessons from recruitment to an internet based survey for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: merits of...; 2017; Davies, B.; Kotter, M. R.
- Achieving Strong Privacy in Online Survey; 2017; Zhou, Yo.; Zhou, Yi.; Chen, S.; Wu, S. S.
- Usability Testing for Survey Research; 2017; Geisen, E.; Romano Bergstrom, J. C.
- Millennials and emojis in Spain and Mexico.; 2017; Bosch Jover, O.; Revilla, M.
- Humanizing Cues in Internet Surveys: Investigating Respondent Cognitive Processes; 2017; Jablonski, W.; Grzeszkiewicz-Radulska, K.; Krzewinska, A.
- Web Health Monitoring Survey: A New Approach to Enhance the Effectiveness of Telemedicine Systems; 2017; Romano, M. F.; Sardella, M. V.; Alboni, F.
- Device and Internet Use among Spanish-dominant Hispanics: Implications for Web Survey Design and Testing...; 2017; Trejo, Y. A. G.; Schoua-Glusberg, A.
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- How to Design a Web Survey Using Spring Boot With MYSQL: a Romanien Network Case Study; 2017; Bucea-Manea-Tonis, Ro.; Bucea-Manea-Tonis, Ra.
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- Effects of Personalization and Invitation Email Length on Web-Based Survey Response Rates; 2016; Trespalacios, J. H.; Perkins, R. A.
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- When it comes to mobile respondent experience and data quality, survey design matters; 2014; Mitchell, N.
- The Changing Landscape of Technology and its Effect on Online Survey Data Collection; 2014; Mitchell, N.
- The need of and the demand for completing surveys on mobile devices; 2014; Toninelli, D., Revilla, M., Ochoa, C.
- The Effectiveness of Mailed Invitations for Web Surveys and the Representativeness of Mixed-Mode versus...; 2014; Bandilla, W., Couper, M. P., Kaczmirek, L.
- Gender Differences in Internet Addiction Associated with Psychological Health Indicators Among Adolescents...; 2014; Ha, Y.-M., Hwang, W. J.
- Use of a Google Map Tool Embedded in an Internet Survey Instrument: Is it a Valid and Reliable Alternative...; 2014; Dasgupta, S., Vaughan, A. S., Kramer, M. R., Sanchez, T. H., Sullivan, P. S.
- Does Self-Selection Affect Samples' Representativeness in Online Surveys? An Investigation in Online...; 2014; Khazaal, Y., van Singer, M., Chatton, A., Achab, S., Zullino, D., Rothen, S., Khan, R., Billieux, J.,...
- Differences in intrapersonal and interactional empowerment between lurkers and posters in health-related...; 2014; Petrovcic, A., Petric, G.
- Web-based Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction Surveys May Introduce Potential for Bias; 2014; Broadwater-Hollifield, C., Fair, J., Podolsky, S., et al.
- Validating respondents' identity in online samples; 2014; Baker, R., Miller, C., Kachhi-Jiwani, D., Lange, K., Wilding-Brown, L., Tucker, J.
- Which fieldwork method for what target group? How to improve response rate and data quality; 2014; Wulfert, T., Woppmann, A.
- Social desirability is the same in offline, online, and paper surveys: A meta-analysis; 2014; Dodou, D., de Winter J. C. F.
- Clicking vs. Dragging: Different Uses of the Mouse and Their Implications for Online Surveys; 2014; Sikkel, D., Steenbergen, R., Gras, S.
- Online Surveys as a Management Tool for Monitoring Multicultual Virtual Team Processes; 2014; Scovotti, C.
- Ideal participants in online market research: Lessons from closed communities; 2013; Heinze, A., Ferneley, E., Child, P.
- The internet user profile of Italian families of patients with rare diseases: a web survey; 2013; Tozzi, A. E., Mingarelli, R., Agricola, E., Gonfiantini, M., Pandolfi, E., Carloni, E., Gesualdo, F.,...
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- Advantages of a global multimodal print & digital readership survey; 2013; Cour, N., Saint-Joanis, G.
- Australia: building a 21st century readership survey; 2013; Green, A., White, H.
- Video Content in Web Surveys: Effects on Selection Bias and Validity; 2013; Shapiro-Luft, D., Cappella, J.
- When to and When Not to Conduct a Web Survey; 2013; Barna, A.
- Relative Mode Effects on Data Quality in Mixed-Mode Surveys by an Instrumental Variable; 2013; Vannieuwenhuyze, J. T. A., Revilla, M.
- Educational use of smart phone technology: A survey of mobile phone application use by undergraduate...; 2013; Bomhold, C. R.
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