%0 Journal Article
%T Utilizing the Total Design Method in medicine: maximizing response rates in long, non-incentivized, personal questionnaire postal surveys
%A Charles M Malata
%A Fawz Kazzazi
%A Nazar Kazzazi
%A Parto Forouhi
%A Rebecca Haggie
%J Archive of "Patient Related Outcome Measures".
%D 2018
%R 10.2147/PROM.S156109
%X Maximizing response rates in questionnaires can improve their validity and quality by reducing non-response bias. A comprehensive analysis is essential for producing reasonable conclusions in patient-reported outcome research particularly for topics of a sensitive nature. This often makes long (¡Ư7 pages) questionnaires necessary but these have been shown to reduce response rates in mail surveys. Our work adapted the ¡°Total Design Method,¡± initially produced for commercial markets, to raise response rates in a long (total: 11 pages, 116 questions), non-incentivized, very personal postal survey sent to almost 350 women
%K breast
%K surgery
%K postal survey
%K oncology
%K cancer
%K breast reconstruction
%K immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction
%K patient satisfaction
%K PROMs
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995290/