Book Review: Dillman, D. A. (2000). Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley 464 pp., $47.50 (hardcover)

Faubion, Clayton W.; Andrew, Jason D.

doi:10.1177/003435520104400309

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“…African American households were oversampled to increase response diversity (50% Caucasian, 50% African American). A survey packet was mailed to each household, and the recommendations by Dillman (2000) were used to increase the response rate: Specifically, we used various forms of contact, including a reminder postcard, telephone calls, and a follow-up packet over 4 to 6 weeks. Within this sample, 68 packets were nondeliverable, and 100 foster caregivers returned a completed survey.…”

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Foster Caregivers' Marital and Coparenting Relationship Experiences: A Dyadic Perspective

Richardson¹,

Futris²

2019

Family Relations

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Objective To explore the associations among foster caregiver husbands' and wives' parenting stress, couple relationship quality, and coparenting relationship quality. Background Little empirical attention has been given to examining the relationship experiences of foster caregivers. The present study was designed to examine how parenting stress of foster caregivers is associated with husbands' and wives' perceptions of their marital and coparenting relationships. Method Using an actor–partner interdependence model, we analyzed data from a sample of 96 heterosexually married couples who were active foster caregivers from three larger studies from a single state. Results Both husbands' and wives' parenting stress were associated with their own and their partner's perceptions of their marital and coparenting relationship, but marital relationship quality was only associated with their own coparenting relationship quality (i.e., actor effects). Husbands' perceptions of the marital relationship mediated the relationship between both husbands' and wives' parenting stress and husbands' coparenting relationship quality. Conclusion Results suggest that foster caregiver husbands' and wives' parenting stresses have unique impacts on how they and their partner perceive their marital and coparenting relationships. Implications Child welfare professionals who work with foster caregivers may provide resources and support to reduce the parenting stress caregivers experience, such as providing more access to respite services and healthy relationship and marriage education.

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Section: Recruitment and Sample Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foster Caregivers' Marital and Coparenting Relationship Experiences: A Dyadic Perspective

Richardson¹,

Futris²

2019

Family Relations

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“…Another significant impediment to response is likely to be the inability to remind chiropractors to respond. Best practice for enhancing response rates in surveys is to initially send a “herald” notice that the survey is coming and important, then a despatch of the survey and at least two follow-up reminders at spaced intervals [47]. Unfortunately, ACORN will not allow this type of reminder system and this could impair response rates in future surveys of ACORN participants.…”

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Attempting to explore chiropractors and their clinical choices: an examination of a failed study

2019

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Background Recent studies have shown that psychological factors, attitudes and beliefs impact on the quality of chiropractic student clinical decisions. This association has not been studied among qualified chiropractors. Our objective was to investigate if personality, psychological factors and/or unorthodox beliefs among chiropractors are related to choices of management in specific clinical scenarios. Method In February 2018, a subsample of chiropractors ( N = 700) from a practitioner-based research network in Australia known as ACORN ( N = 1680), were invited to respond to an on-line anonymous questionnaire. Questions included items relating to management of specific clinical scenarios, intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and the ‘Big-5’ personality score, adoption of a prescriptive technique system, self-rating of chiropractic abilities, and the level of importance of subluxation and chiropractic philosophy in the delivery of care. Descriptive analysis was to be reported and associations examined between i) personality and psychology factors, unorthodox beliefs and ii) scores obtained for management of specific clinical scenarios, numbers of interdisciplinary referrals, and guideline-based X-ray use. Results The number of respondents was 141 (20%) and 33 of their responses were largely incomplete resulting in a final response rate of 108 (15.4%). In addition, some questions were left unanswered. These related mainly to IU and Big-5 personality measurements. Some sample characteristics (age, number of patients per week, hours worked per week) were similar to the larger ACORN project sample. However, the low response rate indicated that the final study sample was unlikely to be truly representative of the study population and the low number of participants made association testing unsuitable. Conclusion and recommendations The low response rate and small study sample in this study made any substantive analysis inappropriate. For these reasons, the study was not concluded. However, the potential reasons for the low response from this large database of volunteer research participants are of interest and need to be investigated. Clearly, it is necessary to engage this population better to explore sensitive issues such as personality inventories and different practice profiles in the interest of effective health care delivery and patient safety. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12998-019-0236-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The Tailored Design Method of Dillman (2000) was employed. Just one reminder was given to non-respondent teachers to return the completed questionnaires because of resource constraints.…”

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Teacher Beliefs About Sustainable Agriculture: A Self-made Measurement Scale

Muma¹,

Martin²,

Shelley³

2020

ASS

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The study’s purpose was to analyze the validity of the construct of a self-made Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm scale using the teacher population teaching high school agriculture in the North Central Region of the USA. A random sample of 844 teachers was drawn. Teachers were self-administered questionnaires with 5-point Likert-type scales. Instrument inter-item consistency and item coherence were determined. The relatively high coefficient alpha (.82), mean item total correlation (.40), and unrotated first factors with modest number of items loading on the factor means that the scale has mainly one underlying construct. The teacher population holds consistent views and attitudes about SA constituting an agricultural paradigm. The instrument items are coherent as components of a whole and are related. However, the teacher population did not hold stronger paradigmatic views on the scale as can be expected because of their relatively low mean score item-total correlation and coefficient alpha for the instrument compared to what was found for the scale in the Beus and Dunlap (1991) study. This should be expected because agriculture teachers are not strong adherents of the two agricultural paradigms who can be expected to make extreme and polar scores on the scale. The instrument can therefore be used to preliminarily gauge the paradigmatic orientation of agriculture teachers in the region. Further research with the instrument with known groups supporting the two paradigms is necessary to establish its validity.

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Book Review: Dillman, D. A. (2000). Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley 464 pp., $47.50 (hardcover)

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Foster Caregivers' Marital and Coparenting Relationship Experiences: A Dyadic Perspective

Foster Caregivers' Marital and Coparenting Relationship Experiences: A Dyadic Perspective

Attempting to explore chiropractors and their clinical choices: an examination of a failed study

Teacher Beliefs About Sustainable Agriculture: A Self-made Measurement Scale

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