Please note that unless otherwise stated, the questionnaires referred to below are subject to copyright restrictions. Therefore, if you are considering using them for your own study you should always seek the permission of the appropriate contacts provided under the relevant URLs. It is also important to note that these questionnaires may contain imperfections. Questionnaire design is a science in itself and thus questionnaires are subject to perpetual improvement. You are therefore also invited to make good use of the information under the other sub-headers provided within the Questionnaire Design area of the MedStats site. Nevertheless, hopefully the questionnaires will feed your imagination with areas to explore in your own study and provide ideas on how questions may be designed to elicit the specific information you require from patients or other potential respondents.
Reviewed Methods for Measuring Health Status and Quality of Life – please click on this linked title for further details
Questionnaires used in UK Biobank Study
The UK Biobank Study website provides a number of questionnaire used in the associated study involving a range of questions relating to health and diet. If these topics relate to your study and your are involved in questionnaire design, it is definitely worth your while taking a look at the questionnaires provided on the Resources page.
Patients’ experiences and levels of satisfaction
Following the development of the White Paper “The new NHS – modern, dependable”, the UK Department of Health has carried out a number of surveys of patients experiences.
National surveys involving primary care, coronary heart disease and cancer patients have been conducted by the Department of Health in England in relation to patient experience of care. The relevant questionnaires can be downloaded by means of the sub-headers below.
2. Primary Care
An overview of each of these questionnaires can be obtained via the left hand margin of the following Department of Health overview page.
Please note that the above links (labelled “1” to “3”) to the individual questionnaires have been provided separately for your convenience because the questionnaires are not readily accessible from the above overview page.
The Department of General Pactice and Primary Health Care at the University of Leicester have developed two questionnaires which may be thought of as jointly comprising a patient diary for assessing experiences across the primary-secondary care interface. The questionnaires were designed to assess satisfaction with the consultation and satisfaction with the surgery separately.
More details can be found through accessing the publication Measuring patients’ attitudes to care across the primary/secondary interface: the development of the patient career diary.
The General Practice Assessment Questionnaire, developed at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester is designed to provide patient feedback on the care they receive from their General Practices. Please note the conditions for use provided via a hyperlinked term towards the bottom of the relevant webpage.
If your survey relates to quality of primary care received by patients outside of GP practice hours, you may wish to view the short SQOC questionnaire.
Surveys on Student Alcohol Intake
If you are designing a questionnaire on student alcohol intake and are looking for some ideas for questions to include, here are some useful resources to provide you with some inspiration:
Student alcohol intake, health and lifestyle questionnaires and related documents
Patterns of alcohol drinking in young adults
relevant publication: Patterns of alcohol drinking in a population of young social drinkers: A comparison of questionnaire and diary measures
It is of interest to observe what issues are covered (such as whether the students live at home) and also how specific one can be about the frequency of drinking and the types of drinks.
Additionally, have a look at the section below. A search for the term ‘alcohol’, for example, at the recommended CASS website will lead you to relevant questionnaires of relevance to the above topics.
Survey Question Bank
The Survey Question Bank contains a variety of questions and questionnaires which have been used in valued and recognized surveys. The topics covered include health related issues (such as mental health and well-being and physical activity and health, to name but a few) and therefore you may find something of relevance there when designing your own questionnaire. The site is equipped with an excellent search engine enabling you to search all questionnaires simultaneously for specific words or phrases. Take a look and see!
Questions and Questionnaires Used in Previous Medical Research by Margaret MacDougall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
