Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
Eval Health Prof. 2013 Sep;36(3):382-407. doi: 10.1177/0163278713496425.
Surveys involving health care providers are characterized by low and declining response rates (RRs), and researchers have utilized various strategies to increase survey RRs among health professionals. Based on 48 studies with 156 subgroups of within-study conditions, a multilevel meta-regression analysis was conducted to summarize the effects of different strategies employed in surveys of health professionals. An estimated overall survey RR among health professionals was 0.53 with a significant downward trend during the last half century. Of the variables that were examined, mode of data collection, incentives, and number of follow-up attempts were all found to be significantly related to RR. The mail survey mode was more effective in improving RR, compared to the online or web survey mode. Relative to the non-incentive subgroups, subgroups receiving monetary incentives were more likely to respond, while nonmonetary incentive groups were not significantly different from non-incentive groups. When number of follow-ups was considered, the one or two attempts of follow-up were found to be effective in increasing survey RR among health professionals. Having noted challenges associated with surveying health professionals, researchers must make every effort to improve access to their target population by implementing appropriate incentive- and design-based strategies demonstrated to improve participation rates.
涉及医疗保健提供者的调查的特点是低且不断下降的回复率 (RR)，研究人员已经利用各种策略来提高卫生专业人员的调查 RR。基于 48 项研究和 156 个研究内条件亚组，进行了多层次元回归分析，以总结在卫生专业人员调查中采用的不同策略的效果。卫生专业人员的总体调查 RR 估计为 0.53，在过去半个世纪呈明显下降趋势。在所检查的变量中，数据收集方式、激励措施和后续尝试次数均与 RR 显著相关。与在线或网络调查模式相比，邮件调查模式更有效地提高了 RR。与非激励亚组相比，收到金钱激励的亚组更有可能做出回应，而非金钱激励组与非激励组没有显著差异。当考虑到后续次数时，发现一到两次后续尝试可有效提高卫生专业人员的调查 RR。研究人员已经注意到调查卫生专业人员所面临的挑战，必须通过实施已证明可提高参与率的适当激励和基于设计的策略，尽力改善对目标人群的可及性。
