ReviewSaudi journal of anaesthesia
How short or long should be a questionnaire for any research? Researchers dilemma in deciding the appropriate questionnaire length.
Review in Saudi journal of anaesthesia. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Self-Report Questionnaires to Measure Big Five Personality Traits in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Embedding psychological care in diabetes services: Why it's time to innovate and integrate.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026Review
- Knowledge, attitude and practice of labor neuraxial analgesia in pregnant women and their partners: a cross-sectional survey in China.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Less is more? A hybrid machine learning and psychometric approach to identifying clinically relevant psychopathology in Chinese youth using the Child Behaviour Checklist.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
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- Validity and Reliability of a Self-administered Questionnaire for 24-hour Movement Behaviors.Journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Scan, Screen, Support-A Digital Pathway for Assessing Supportive Care Needs in Oncology: Implementation Study.JMIR cancer · 2026Article
- Validation of the Spanish Short Version of the Perception of Humanized Care Behaviors Scale in Hospitalized Adults in Chile.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2026Article
- Validation of the Iranian version of the work-family guilt scale.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- In-depth psychometric evaluation of the PsychQOL questionnaire: factor structure and ROC analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Exploring feasible ways of person-reported outcome measurement in routine type 1 diabetes care: a protocol for the Diabeter-PROM study.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2026Article
- Psychometric of the Ferrer-Urbina multidimensional scale of sexual self concept (MSSSC) in the Iranian population.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The revised version of significant quality of life measure (SigQOLM-36).BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Development of the Canadian Eating Practices Screener for Adolescents to assess eating practices based on Canada's Food Guide 2019 recommendations.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Do Nurses Thrive in Their Organization? Validation of the Short Form of Nurses' Organizational Health Questionnaire.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Development of a Deep Learning Model for Predicting Obesity Using Health Behavior Data of Elementary School Students.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Patient's knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards pulmonary nodule management: a cross-sectional study in Wenzhou, China.BMJ open · 2025Article
27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
A questionnaire plays a pivotal role in various surveys. Within the realm of biomedical research, questionnaires serve a role in epidemiological surveys and mental health surveys and to obtain information about knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) on various topics of interest. Questionnaire in border perspective can be of different types like self-administered or professionally administered and according to the mode of delivery paper-based or electronic media-based. Various studies have been conducted to assess the appropriateness of a questionnaire in a particular field and methods to translate and validate them. But very little is known regarding the appropriate length and number of questions in a questionnaire and what role it has in data quality, reliability, and response rates. Hence, this narrative review is to explore the critical issue of appropriate length and number of questions in a questionnaire while questionnaire designing.
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