2005 - "Questionable" research: Survey design best practices to strengthen your next project

Sunday, April 24, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 205

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 2005

Leader(s)

Juliann Reardon, MD MHS

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Nephrologist
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Sonja Ziniel, PhD, MA (she/her/hers)

Assistant Research Professor; Senior Survey Methodologist
Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics
Aurora, Colorado, United States
David Vermette, MD, MBA

Clinical Fellow (Pediatric Hospital Medicine); Medical Education Fellow (General Internal Medicine)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Juliann Reardon, MD MHS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Sonja I. Ziniel, PhD, MA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

David Vermette, MD, MBA: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, surveying is becoming more ubiquitous in medical and educational research, yet response rates are decreasing, indicating survey fatigue. Despite frequent use within research, physicians have limited instruction on survey design. Many surveys do not follow recommended methodology or best practices, and a poorly constructed survey limits its generalizability, reproducibility, and may not measure the domain intended. In a time of overwhelming survey research, it becomes even more prudent for researchers to create surveys that target their identified construct and follow best practice.
In this highly interactive session, attendees will journey through the first steps of survey design. They will actively participate in multiple individual and small group exercises to refine the underlying construct of their survey, identify applicable existing domains and surveys, and practice writing survey items. Attendees will also have the opportunity to apply knowledge gained by serving as a “reviewer” and are expected to provide feedback to their peers on the surveys developed within the session. The group will reconvene at the end of the session to discuss the experience navigating the survey design process and final tips will be highlighted.
To maximize the usefulness of this session, attendees are expected to arrive with a general idea of a survey they would like to create.