Year: 2023 | Month: October | Volume: 13 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 299-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231040
Attitude of Physiotherapy Students towards Responses to Questionnaires
Amiraj Parekh1, Megha Sheth2, Shivani Sheth3
1Ex-student, SBB College of Physiotherapy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
2Lecturer, SBB College of Physiotherapy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
3Assistant Professor, Khyati Institute of Physiotherapy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
Corresponding Author: Megha Sheth
ABSTRACT
Self-administered questionnaires are a good way of conducting research and gathering information. With the advent of technology, the questionnaire can be more easily circulated and a lot more data can be collected with online surveys. However, a common limitation of the responses is that they may be incomplete, biased or not valid and meaningful. The present study was conducted to find the attitude of physiotherapy students when they fill out online research questionnaires.
An observational study was conducted at SBB College of Physiotherapy. An online questionnaire was generated and validated by experts. It was sent to post-graduate students, interns, and final-year undergraduate students of various physiotherapy colleges to find the attitude toward responses to questionnaires using convenience and snowball sampling.
96.6% of participants had responded to a questionnaire before this study. 65.9% of participants had knowledge about the topic on which they were answering questions. 9.1% were not sure if they understood the questions prior to responding to a survey and 4.5% had not completely understood the questions which they had answered. 88.6% of the participants agreed that they completely read the questions before answering. 38.6% of participants search the internet or have searched on the internet prior to answering questionnaires.
The study brings out the need to establish methods to improve the quality of responses obtained via an online questionnaire.
Key words: Online questionnaires, data cleaning, careless responses