Effectiveness of Incentives and Follow-Up on Increasing Survey Response Rates and Participation in Field Studies

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• Creators:
  Smith, Michael G ; Witte, Maryam ; Rocha, Sarah ; Basner, Mathias
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; University of Pennsylvania
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Environment and Energy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Field studies
  • Questionnaires
  • Cost effectiveness
  • Public health
  • Sleep deprivation
  • Aircraft noise Field study recruitment
  • Postal questionnaires
  • Response rate
  • Public health research
  • Sleep disturbance
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  10.1186/s12874-019-0868-8
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; University of Pennsylvania
• Abstract:
  Questionnaires are valuable data collection instruments in public health research, and can serve to pre-screen respondents for suitability in future studies. Survey non-response leads to reduced effective sample sizes and can decrease representativeness of the study population, so high response rates are needed to minimize the risk of bias. Here we present results on the success of different postal questionnaire strategies at effecting response, and the effectiveness of these strategies at recruiting participants for a field study on the effects of aircraft noise on sleep.
• Content Notes:
  Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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  PDF
• Funding:
  13-C-AJFE-UPenn-004
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50409/dot_50409_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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