ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Enhancing Response Rates in Web-Based Surveys: The Impact of Direct Participant Contact.
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- The Utility of Automated, Data-Driven Clinical Support in Telemedicine for Critical Illness: A Survey-Based Study.Critical care explorations · 2026Article
- Occupational burnout and depression among emergency medical service providers in Switzerland and Liechtenstein: a cross-sectional nationwide web-based study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Palliative psychological care in Germany: Results of a national online survey with psychologists and psycho-oncologists in specialist palliative care settings.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Association between social skills and mental health outcomes in Health Science Residents in Brazil.PloS one · 2026Article
- Evaluating Physical and Occupational Therapists' and Assistants' Experiences Implementing an Electronic Health Record-Based Intervention to Support Perioperative Patients' Use of Nonpharmacological Pain Management Techniques.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025Article
- GPS tracking methods for spatiotemporal air pollution exposure assessment: comparison and challenges in study implementation.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Achieving a high participation rate is a common challenge in healthcare research based on web-based surveys. A study on local anesthetic systemic toxicity awareness and usage among medical practitioners at two Swiss university hospitals encountered resistance in obtaining personal email addresses from Heads of Departments. Participants were therefore divided into two groups: those who were directly invited via email (personal invitation group) and those who received a generic link through intermediaries (generic link group). The latter group was eventually excluded from survey data analysis. To determine whether one method of survey administration was more effective than another, we carried out a retrospective analysis of response rates and the proportion of new questionnaires completed after initial invitation and subsequent reminders. The results showed significantly higher response rates in the personal invitation group (40.2%, 313/779) compared to the generic link group (25.3%, 22/87), emphasizing the effectiveness of personal invitations on response rate (+14.9%,
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