From: Mail merge can be used to create personalized questionnaires in complex surveys
Type of information | Generic wording | Personalized wording (based on target study publication) | Total number of unique fields |
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Study title, journal, and year of publication | Your study was randomly selected for this survey | Your study (A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effect of a Handwashing-Promotion Program in Chinese Primary Schools,) published in [Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007)] was randomly selected for this survey | 285 |
Research ethics approval | Did you seek ethics approval to conduct the study? | [Our review of your paper indicates that research ethics approval was (sought) (not sought) to conduct the study. Is this correct?] | 2 |
Type of committee | How many ethics committees did you approach? | How many [institutional review boards (IRBs)] [Research Ethics Boards (REBs)] [Research Ethics Committees (RECs)…] did you approach? | 13 |
Study permission | Did one or more gatekeepers provide agreement or consent to the clusters’ involvement in your study? | Did any (school principals or school district administrators) provide agreement or consent to the involvement of (schools) in your study? | 93 |
Any other permission | Did you seek approval from anyone else to conduct the study? | Did you seek approval from anyone else, such as: (Ministry of Education, Department of Public Health, or school advisory board,) to conduct the study? | 16 |
Unit of randomization | Was consent sought before randomization of clusters? | Was consent sought before randomization of (schools)? | 138 |
Cluster level participants | Did cluster-level participants in the intervention arm provide consent? | Did (the teachers) in your intervention arm consent to receiving the study interventions? | 98 |
Individual level participants | Did individual level participants provide consent? | Did (parents or guardians of students) consent to the collection of data in your study? | 113 |