Cognitive interviewing: Verbal data in the design and pretesting of questionnaires

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-63

  Drennan, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cognitive interviewing; Cognitive psychology; Question wording; Questionnaire design; Questionnaire pretesting; Survey research

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ERROR; HEALTH CARE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0037490199     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02579.x     Document Type: Article

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