Questionnaire color and response rates to mailed surveys: A randomized trial and a meta-analysis

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-199

  Etter, Jean François ^a   Cucherat, Michel ^b   Perneger, Thomas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; HEALTH SURVEY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PAPER; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLOR; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POSTAL SERVICE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036249571     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01678702025002004     Document Type: Article

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