Measuring Generalized Risk Orientation with a Single Survey Item

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherie Maestas ◽  
William M. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Survey Item

Do local circumstances affect attitudes towards local social policies? Exploring the role of economic, political and demographic conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Babs Broekema ◽  
Menno Fenger ◽  
Jeroen van der Waal
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Election Studies

PurposeThis article aims to explore whether and how economic, political and demographic municipal conditions shape citizens' attitudes regarding decentralised social policies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analysed the 2018 wave of the Dutch Local Election Studies, which includes a novel survey item asking respondents whether they prefer local social policies to be primarily: (1) protection-based, (2) cohesion-building or (3) activation-based. The authors appended context indicators to that survey and performed multilevel logistic regression analyses (1,913 respondents nested in 336 municipalities).FindingsAt the individual level, these preferences are affected by gender, age, income, education and political inclination, as expected. However, preferences towards local social policies are not shaped by local economic, demographic or political conditions. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for future research.Originality/valueBy using unique data, including a newly developed survey item, this study is the first to explore whether and how municipal conditions shape preferences regarding local welfare. Understanding those preferences is increasingly important as many Western European countries have decentralised swathes of social policies from the national to the local level in recent decades.

“Forgetting the Pain”: Successful Applicants’ Experiences of Attaining a Dietetic Internship Position in Ontario

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Olivia Siswanto ◽  
Jennifer Brady ◽  
Patricia Alvarenga ◽  
Ahuva Magder ◽  
Jordana Riesel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Dietetic Internship ◽  
And Training

This study seeks to explore the lived experience of students who applied to an Ontario-based dietetic internship program and were successful upon their first application attempt. A 32-item online survey was distributed via email to all students who graduated from Brescia University College, Guelph University, and Ryerson University between 2006 and 2011 and to members of the Dietitians of Canada Student Network, Toronto Home Economics Association, and Ontario Home Economists in Business. The final survey item invited respondents to participate in one-on-one interview. The semi-structured interviews focused on participants’ experience of applying to and receiving an internship position. Interviews were conducted either in person or by telephone and were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and thematically analyzed by the research team. Of the 82 participants who completed the online survey, 17 respondents participated in a one-on-one interview. Even students who were successful at attaining an internship are negatively impacted by having to compete with peers for an internship spot in Ontario. This research serves as a comparison to previous work examining the experiences of not attaining an internship. Both studies point directly to the changes urgently required to enhance the current model of education and training in Ontario.

Young People’s Perspectives in Developing a Survey Item on Factors That Influence Body Image

Young ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 54S-72S
Author(s):  
Ursula Kenny ◽  
Michal Molcho ◽  
Colette Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Young People ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Nationally Representative

Body image concerns are prevalent among adolescents; however, a single item assessing what influences their body image does not exist. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop a survey item on the factors influencing adolescent body image for inclusion in a nationally representative health behaviour survey. This article describes the methodology used to develop a survey item and the results obtained through its inclusion in the survey. The research design included a literature review, consultation work with young people and data analyses of the new survey item included in the survey. Results from the current study revealed that a variety of factors influence adolescent body image, some of which have been overlooked in the traditional body image literature to date. This study demonstrates consultation with young people can contribute to the development of quantitative measures.

scholarly journals “Can virtue be taught?”: a content analysis of medical students’ opinions of the professional and ethical challenges to their professional identity formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hawking ◽  
Jenny Kim ◽  
Melody Jih ◽  
Chelsea Hu ◽  
John D. Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Professional Issues ◽  
Professional Identity Formation ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Ethical And Professional Issues

Abstract Background Efforts have begun to characterize the ethical and professional issues encountered by medical students in their clinical years. By applying previously identified taxonomies to a national sample of medical students, this study seeks to develop generalizable insights that can inform professional identity formation across various clerkships and medical institutions. Methods In a national survey of medical students, participants answered an open-ended survey item that asked them to describe a clinical experience involving an ethical or professional issue. We conducted a content analysis with these responses using the Kaldjian taxonomy of ethical and professionalism themes in medical education through an iterative, consensus-building process. Noting the emerging virtues-based approach to ethics and professionalism, we also reexamined the data using a taxonomy of virtues. Results The response rate to this survey item was 144 out of 499 eligible respondents (28.9%). All 144 responses were successfully coded under one or more themes in the original taxonomy of ethical and professional issues, resulting in a total of 173 coded responses. Professional duties was the most frequently coded theme (29.2%), followed by Communication (26.4%), Quality of care (18.8%), Student-specific issues of moral distress (16.7%), Decisions regarding treatment (16.0%), and Justice (13.2%). In the virtues taxonomy, 180 total responses were coded from the 144 original responses, and the most frequent virtue coded was Wisdom (23.6%), followed by Respectfulness (20.1%) and Compassion or Empathy (13.9%). Conclusions Originally developed from students’ clinical experiences in one institution, the Kaldjian taxonomy appears to serve as a useful analytical framework for categorizing a variety of clinical experiences faced by a national sample of medical students. This study also supports the development of virtue-based programs that focus on cultivating the virtue of wisdom in the practice of medicine.

scholarly journals Survey Item Validation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Gordon Wolf ◽  
Elliott Daniel Ihm ◽  
andrew maul ◽  
Ann Taves
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Cognitive Interviews ◽  
Response Process ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Intended Purpose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Item Validation

In the social sciences, validity refers to the adequacy of a survey (or other mode of assessment) for its intended purpose. Validation refers to the activities undertaken during and after the construction of the survey to evaluate and improve validity. Item validation refers here to procedures for evaluating and improving respondents’ understanding of the questions and response options included in a survey. Ver- bal probing techniques such as cognitive interviews can be used to understand respondents’ response process, that is, what they are thinking as they answer the survey items. Although cognitive interviews can provide evidence for the validity of survey items, they are time-consuming and thus rarely used in practice. The Response Process Evaluation (RPE) method is a newly-developed technique that utilizes open-ended meta-surveys to rapidly collect evidence of validity across a population of interest, make quick revisions to items, and immediately test these revisions across new samples of respondents. Like cognitive interviews, the RPE method focuses on how participants interpret the item and select a re- sponse. The chapter demonstrates the process of validating one survey item taken from the Inventory of Non-Ordinary Experiences (INOE).

scholarly journals Where There’s Smoke: Validating a Nonproprietary Single-Item Burnout-Impacting-Safety Scale

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Amanda Pearl ◽  
Steve Mrozowski ◽  
Daniel Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cutoff Score ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Survey Item ◽  
Safety Event ◽  
Clinical Departments ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to assess the utility of a single survey item to predict the impact of burnout on safety and quality of healthcare providers as perceived by their colleagues. The primary objective is to determine if the item predicts the frequency of patient safety event reports within certain clinical departments. The secondary objective will be to determine if there is an acceptable cutoff score for the item which predicts low versus high numbers of safety events reported by healthcare providers in each clinical department. Participants were 424 healthcare providers in an academic medical center in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The item was designed to assess for the perception of the impact of burnout on work in terms of quality or safety using a 5-point Likert scale. Data from a patient safety event reporting system was accessed for the year of survey completion (2017). A negative binomial regression was used to assess the ability of the item to predict reported patient safety event reports. The item was found to significantly predict objective safety event data. Sensitivity and specificity, as well as receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses, were conducted to determine appropriateness of cutoff scores to identify low- and high-risk clinical departments. The item was found to demonstrate adequate sensitivity (82%) using a cutoff score of 4 on the survey item. However, the area under the curves (AUCs) which assess diagnostic accuracy fell in the poor range. These results suggest that healthcare administrators could deploy this single item as a brief pulse or screener of teams of individuals who are within a work unit and use a cutoff score of 4 as a means to assess for hot spots where healthcare provider burnout may be putting patients at high risk in terms of safety.

scholarly journals Salvation and Religiosity: The Predictive Strength and Limitations of a Rokeach Value Survey Item

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Gábor Ittzés ◽  
Bernadett Sipos-Bielochradszky ◽  
Orsolya Béres ◽  
Attila Pilinszki
Keyword(s):  
Survey Item ◽  
Rokeach Value Survey ◽  
Predictive Strength
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