A post graduate study on Diving accidents and Injuries

[elvishwolf]

Hello


My name is Ahmed Sabry and i am a 3 star Diver ... and also am graduated from physical education college "sports science" Alexandria University Egypt... Diving division ..

i am currently working on my masters degree on Diving accidents and injuries ...and trying to make divers fill out a questionnaire that would help me in my research ... it's purpose is to find out the details and numbers of certain accidents and injuries to build up a general idea on the rates and causes of these accidents .. here is the link to the Questionnaire if you can help me by filling me one it would be Very very helpful

Questionnaire: SURVEY: Diving accidents and injuries survey

Complete it till the end and press Submit so that i can receive the info.


i thank you in advance


Ahmed Sabry

 

[nimoh]

I would be happy to help, but there is no way I am entering personal information into your form. Good Luck!

 

[elvishwolf]

hmm name is for not having a double of each questionnaire, email and mobile are Optional .. if you do write your email done .. i will use it to send the Research results when i finish ...

other than that the rest of the Information needed let me know your experience, and if any "Accidents and Injuries happened to you before"

if you don't want to fill in a certain area it's ok...

 

[TSandM]

I actually tried to complete the form, although I wasn't happy, either, about having to submit my name and birthdate. But when it wouldn't allow me to submit the form without my certification number (which I don't have memorized, and I didn't want to go dig up the card to find it) I gave up.

Surveys like this need to be fairly easy, or people just won't do them.

 

[boulderjohn]

I will not do the survey because of the required personal information. You say "Some personal information necessary for conducting the survey - We treat all personal information confidentially, and will only show up in the study in the form of statistical analysis." I can't for the life of me understand why you need that information, for statistical analysis especially. I caution everyone on this forum to be wary of this for that reason.

I have also taught research methodologies, including the use of surveys. I suggest you think this one through carefully. It will be very hard to get useful data from this one given the way it is set up and the way the questions are worded.

 

[KeithG]

Hi Ahmed. You are asking for way too much personal information. Especially when it is collected in connection with health related information. In North America I expect your questions actually break personal privacy laws.

A simple example: feel free to ask my age group (10 year groupings, which puts me in the 45-54 group) but never ask my birthdate.

So you are not likely to get much participation until you correct the questionnaire.

Google PII - Personally Identifiable Information.

 

[Bob DBF]

Elvishwolf
.. it's purpose is to find out the details and numbers of certain accidents and injuries to build up a general idea on the rates and causes of these accidents

I couldn't find out the place to put the number of times for each accident or the reason for each accident, so I fanned it.

I suspect that boulderjohn has has put his finger on something.


Bob
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I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.

 

[elvishwolf]

hey

there is a place IF you select an accident .. a number of questions will appear where you can write how many happened to you and your own personal comment on how the accident happened..

Thank you

---------- Post added May 18th, 2013 at 07:12 AM ----------

Yes i studied Research methodology as well ..

here is the purpose of each of the Personal Information.. and how you can avoid the ones you don't want..

Name ... first of all this is to prevent the same diver from posting more than one type in the questionnaire..

birthday .. the purpose of that was to find your age group.

Certification number ... the people who write this can say simply N / A or type in " Personal" or something ...
Many have done so.. i didn't put this as "required" by it self no but it was under a group of information where you type what kind of certifications do you have which Is Required even tho .. IT is Avoidable ..

Also when i give this survey face to face paper form i have the chance to meet the diver and talk to him and make sure that he is really a Diver ... Not a Random internet surfer filling it for kicks!

that is why some of the information are necessary

i am limited by what a free hosting server gives me with options about the online version of the survey it's not perfect i know that..

and am also not forcing any one to fill it ... so i don't think am "breaking any privacy laws" ...

 

[Gunrock]

I submitted the survey. Not a big deal. If you don't want to enter your real birthdate you can pick a random date that puts you in the same 5- or even 10- year window and I'm sure that will be more helpful to the research than not entering it.

Elvishwolf I think your survey questions could benefit if you had a friend who is a native English-speaker suggest some changes. I found some of the questions and guidelines a little vague or confusing. Good luck with your project.

 

[nimoh]

I will not do the survey because of the required personal information. You say "Some personal information necessary for conducting the survey - We treat all personal information confidentially, and will only show up in the study in the form of statistical analysis." I can't for the life of me understand why you need that information, for statistical analysis especially. I caution everyone on this forum to be wary of this for that reason.

I have also taught research methodologies, including the use of surveys. I suggest you think this one through carefully. It will be very hard to get useful data from this one given the way it is set up and the way the questions are worded.

not sure if anyone noticed, but the site is not even using SSL