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The Proper Use of Self-Report Questions in Effective Measurement of Health Outcomes

Susan Schechter

National Centerfor Health Statistics

Douglas Herrmann

Indiana State University

Outcomes research often relies on the use of general population survey data. The recent efforts to employ cognitive science theory in the development of data collection instruments has led to the establishment of new questionnaire design research methods. Intensive cognitive techniques are used in laboratory interviews to develop and pretest self-report survey questions with the goal of reducing nonsampling response error. This article presents the theoretical and applied approach used in the cognitive laboratory to study the ways people respond to surveys, and offers guidelines for improving self-report survey questions.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 20, No. 1, 28-46 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/016327879702000103
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