Children's Mercy Kansas City, Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
J Perinatol. 2024 Jun;44(6):777-784. doi: 10.1038/s41372-023-01801-6. Epub 2023 Oct 20.
Surveys in neonatal perinatal medicine are practical instruments for gathering information about medical practices, and outcomes related to the care of newborns and infants. This includes research for identifying needs, assessing requirements, analyzing the effects of change, creating policies, and developing curriculum initiatives. Surveys also provide useful data for enhancing the provision of healthcare services, assessing medical specialties, and evaluating training programs. However, creating a high-quality survey can be difficult for many practitioners, particularly when deciding how to formulate the right questions, whether to utilize various types of questions and how best to arrange or format the survey tool for effective responses. Problems with design principles have been evident in many surveys submitted for dissemination to the members of the Section of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine (SoNPM). To prevent potential measurement errors and increase the quality of surveys, it is crucial to follow a systematic approach in developing surveys by adhering to the principles of effective survey design. This review article provides a brief summary of survey use within the SoNPM, and offers guidance for creating high-quality surveys, including identifying important factors to consider in survey development and characteristics of well-written and effective questions. We briefly note techniques that optimize survey design for distribution through digital media.
新生儿围产医学调查是收集有关新生儿和婴儿护理的医疗实践和结果信息的实用工具。这包括研究确定需求、评估要求、分析变革效果、制定政策和制定课程计划。调查还为改善医疗保健服务的提供、评估医学专业和评估培训计划提供了有用的数据。然而，对于许多从业者来说，创建高质量的调查可能很困难，特别是在决定如何制定正确的问题、是否使用各种类型的问题以及如何最好地安排或格式化调查工具以获得有效回答时。在提交给新生儿围产医学科（SoNPM）成员分发的许多调查中，设计原则存在问题。为了防止潜在的测量误差并提高调查质量，遵循有效的调查设计原则来系统地开发调查至关重要。本文简要总结了 SoNPM 内调查的使用情况，并提供了创建高质量调查的指南，包括确定调查开发中需要考虑的重要因素以及编写和有效问题的特征。我们简要介绍了通过数字媒体优化调查设计的技术。
