PMID- 9503730
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19980423
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0300-8495 (Print)
IS  - 0300-8495 (Linking)
VI  - 27 Suppl 1
DP  - 1998 Jan
TI  - Maximising response rates in a survey of general practitioners. Lessons from a 
      Victorian survey on sexually transmissible diseases.
PG  - S15-8
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To describe factors that influence participation by general 
      practitioners (GPs) in survey research, and in particular to examine the 
      effectiveness of telephone prompts made by a GP researcher compared with 
      non-medical researchers in a survey of GPs on sexually transmissible diseases 
      (STDs). DESIGN AND SETTING: A questionnaire survey of knowledge, attitudes, 
      behaviour and practice (KABP) in relation to STDs was distributed to 520 
      Victorian GPs randomly selected from the Australian Medical Publishing Company's 
      (AMPCo) database of Australian medical practitioners. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 
      Number of GPs able to be contacted by telephone and cumulative and overall 
      response rates to the questionnaire. RESULTS: The overall response rate was 85%. 
      Although the GP researcher was able to make contact by telephone in a higher 
      proportion of cases (80%) than the non-GP researchers combined (69%, p < 0.01) 
      response rates were not significantly different (83% versus 87%). CONCLUSIONS: 
      Telephone prompts to encourage GP response in survey research need not be made by 
      a medical practitioner. Other important factors in relation to response rate that 
      should be considered by researchers are GP involvement in the developing and 
      piloting of the survey instrument, incentives and provision of detailed feedback 
      of the results of the survey.
FAU - Temple-Smith, M
AU  - Temple-Smith M
AD  - Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Disease, La Trobe University.
FAU - Mulvey, G
AU  - Mulvey G
FAU - Doyle, W
AU  - Doyle W
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Australia
TA  - Aust Fam Physician
JT  - Australian family physician
JID - 0326701
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Data Collection/*methods
MH  - *Family Practice
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Motivation
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - *Practice Patterns, Physicians'
MH  - Sexually Transmitted Diseases/*prevention & control
MH  - Victoria
EDAT- 1998/03/21 00:00
MHDA- 1998/03/21 00:01
CRDT- 1998/03/21 00:00
PHST- 1998/03/21 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1998/03/21 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1998/03/21 00:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Aust Fam Physician. 1998 Jan;27 Suppl 1:S15-8.