University Public Health Survey Design Assignment: STAT6000

This assignment focuses on designing a short telephone survey to investigate the demographic characteristics of a local community's population and differentiate between users and non-users of a local health service. The assignment includes two parts. Part 1 discusses identifying and contacting the two groups, exploring potential population data sources, and evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of each. It also details the sampling method, recruitment process, and limitations of the survey. Part 2 presents the survey questionnaire with questions covering demographics (sex, age, marital status), health conditions, and opinions on the health services (strength and balance programs, service usage, experience, and opinions on service quality and future use). The assignment aims to assess survey design, data collection, and sampling techniques to minimize bias in the context of public health research.

Statistics for Public Health
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PART 1
The study analyzed the topic of public health service among the people of the local
catchment community. There is a sample of 60 observations has been conducted in this study.
The data of this survey has been selected with the help of a telephonic interview. There are
some questions directly, and some answers to the question can be divided into to Likert scale.
Some questions have been divided into five Likert scales. There are mainly two groups of this
survey. These are using the health service or not using the health service. With the help of the
telephonic registry and employment office, the data has been collected (Acharya et al., 2013).
In this study, the health condition of the local catchment community has been discussed. The
advantages of this telephonic data collection method are less cost, less time, quick data
collection technique. Similarly, the disadvantages of this method are respondent can hang the
call at any time that is after completion of the survey, body language and behavior of the
respondent cannot be observed, any visual technique or aids cannot use in this telephonic
interview method (Farooq & De Villiers, 2017).
A simple random sampling method has been applied to collect the data. Firstly the
sources of data collection have been selected then from these sources, a list of 60
observations has been selected with the help of a simple random sampling lottery method.
After this data collection, all the data has been divided into two groups. These are
used health services or not.
The limitations of this survey are the complex questions that cannot conduct this
survey; great questions cannot include. Moreover cannot force the respondent to deliver the
answer. There is a limited time or duration to call the respondent (Hofisi, Hofisi & Mago,
2014).
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PART 2
Q1. Sex
a. (Male) b. Female c. Others
Q2. Age
a. Less than 18 years.
b. 19 to 25 Years.
c. 26 to 35 Years
d. More than 35 years
Q3. Marital status
a. Unmarried
b. In a relationship
c. Married
d. Divorced
Q4. Do you suffer from any disease? If yes, mention the name.
a. Yes
b. No
Disease name: …………………..
Q5. What do you think about the current level of strength and balance programs in your
community?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Q.6 Have you use the health service?
a. Yes
b. No
Q.7 How many times have you use this service during six months?
a. Never
b. Once
c. Twice
d. More than twice
Q.8 How is your experience with this service?
a. Very satisfied
b. Satisfied
c. Neutral
d. dis satisfied
e. Very dis satisfied
Q.9 Do you believe that these services give free medical service at any time?
a. Strongly agree
b. Agree
c. Neutral
d. disagree
e. Strongly disagree
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Q.10 What is your opinion about using this service again?
a. Strongly agree
b. Agree
c. Neutral
d. disagree
e. Strongly disagree
References
Acharya, A. S., Prakash, A., Saxena, P., & Nigam, A. (2013). Sampling: Why and how of it.
Indian Journal of Medical Specialties, 4(2), 330-333.
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Farooq, M. B., & De Villiers, C. (2017). Telephonic qualitative research interviews: When to
consider them and how to do them. Meditari Accountancy Research.
Hofisi, C., Hofisi, M., & Mago, S. (2014). Critiquing interviewing as a data collection
method. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(16), 60.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=health+service+interview
Levy, P. S., & Lemeshow, S. (2013). Sampling of populations: methods and applications.
John Wiley & Sons.
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