Questionnaire Flow Model Clause Samples

Questionnaire Flow Model. Having made changes to the questionnaire properties and having eliminated the concept of subjects, it now becomes important to be able to define the way in which questionnaires are related to each other and in what order they should be completed. In order to represent this QM will need to have a separate graphical representation of the study called the Questionnaire Flow model. It is based on the idea that certain questionnaires are chained together in some logical order and have clearly defined relationships that allows them to “belong together”. These questionnaire chains also need some properties in order to be useful. These properties will be defined briefly and then an example will be given to illustrate their use. (1) Starting point Every questionnaire chain needs to start from a Base Questionnaire. In many public health studies an enrollment form or consent form or a household census form may be the required first step. However in some studies there may be more than one base form. For example, there may be a household enrollment base questionnaire, a school census base questionnaire, a health facility base questionnaire, and a water source base questionnaire. It may be that these forms have a relationship, as will be discussed shortly, but the key characteristic of base questionnaires would have to be that they have some independence from one another.