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Online questionnaires
Published in Catherine Dawson, A–Z of Digital Research Methods, 2019
Online questionnaires are questionnaires that are administered over the internet to gather data about behaviour, experiences, attitudes, beliefs and values. They are used as a research method within a variety of methodologies including survey research (Mei and Brown, 2018), grounded theory (Jenkins et al., 2015) and ethnography (Murthy, 2008), and can be used as a standalone method (Cumming et al., 2007) or combined with other online or offline methods (Kamalodeen and Jameson-Charles, 2016). There are three basic types of online questionnaire: closed-ended (used to generate statistics in quantitative, survey research), open-ended (used in qualitative research to gather in-depth attitudes and opinions) or a combination of both (used to generate statistics and explore ideas, beliefs and/or experiences). Questionnaires can be embedded into websites or blogs, sent out as a bulk email to targeted groups (as attachments or unique links), shared on social networks or as QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) for respondents to scan with their mobile devices, for example. Online questionnaires can also be referred to as web-based questionnaires, web questionnaires, electronic questionnaires or e-questionnaires.
Cross-sectional community-based study to assess the awareness of toxoplasmosis in Saudi Arabia
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2023
Hanadi B. Baghdadi, Ibrahim Abbas, Mohamed Abdo Rizk
Online questionnaires are now widely used in academic research, offering many advantages, such as, rapid, easy to distribute, cost-effective, and attract a high number of participants. Therefore, it can provide a valid alternative for conventional paper-based surveys (Martini et al. 2020). In the present online survey on basic knowledge about toxoplasmosis, 360 individuals from Saudi Arabia have participated; however, percentage of female participants (92.8%) mounted greatly over that of males (7.2%), suggesting that males are less concerned about this disease. This also could be evidenced by the low level of knowledge on toxoplasmosis detected among a few males (n = 26) that have participated in this survey. Nonetheless, the current study is the first to report toxoplasmosis awareness among males in Saudi Arabia.
Empirical Study on Initial Trust of Wearable Devices Based on Product Characteristics
Published in Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2021
Formal surveys were carried out from June 2019 to December 2019 including online and offline questionnaires. Online questionnaires are convenient to send by e-mails or WeChat. The respondents were selected from undergraduate students, graduate students, and IT professionals in China. These two groups have a high utilization rate of handheld devices and wearable devices, which contribute greatly to the accuracy of the study. A total of 436 questionnaires were collected and 328 were valid ones. The effective recovery rate was 75.2%. Of the effective questionnaires collected, men made up 50.5% of the population and women made up 49.5%. The majority of respondents were between 18 and 35 years old (89.5%). Students account for 38.5%, 83.3% of the students have a bachelor’s degree or above; 35.1% with a monthly income below 2000 yuan, and 34.2% with a monthly income between 2000 and 5000 yuan. In the sample, 100% of the users are loyal fans of the mobile internet, and they use their mobile phones for shopping, payment, social contact, and entertainment; 92% of the users are willing to try new technologies such as wearable watches and glasses. All of them are Chinese citizens, so the selection of survey objects conforms to the current research requirements of wearable devices in mainland China.
The categorization of amateur cyclists as research participants: findings from an observational study
Published in Journal of Sports Sciences, 2018
Jose Ignacio Priego Quesada, Zachary Y. Kerr, William M. Bertucci, Felipe P. Carpes
The study aimed to acquire a diverse and worldwide population of amateur cyclists. Thus, the questionnaire was created using Google Forms and made available in four languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese). All four authors assisted in the translation of the questionnaire to ensure consistency across each language-specific version. In general, self-administered, online questionnaires have been widely used in the different areas of knowledge and are considered a feasible and appropriate mode of data collection (De Vera, Ratzlaff, Doerfling, & Kopec, 2010; Rankin et al., 2008).