The DHS Program User Forum: Vaccination Data Technical Consultation

Home » User Groups » Vaccination Data Technical Consultation » Suggestions for questionnaire design

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Suggestions for questionnaire design [message #6829]

Mon, 20 July 2015 15:07

Trevor-DHS
Messages: 805
Registered: January 2013

Senior Member

Can the design of the DHS and/or MICS questionnaire be improved to better capture the information required to monitor vaccination coverage? If so, how?

Report message to a moderator

Re: Suggestions for questionnaire design [message #6878 is a reply to message #6829]

Sun, 26 July 2015 11:40

dbrown
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2015

Member

It would be interesting to get feedback on the pros/cons of structuring the immunization section of the questionnaire to avoid the back and forth between the home-based abstraction question/grid and the questions for capturing maternal recall of child's vaccination history. See attached. Such a structure would seemingly avoid the long pause that is created as the interviewer scans the home-based record for information.

Just as Bo mentioned that we did not speak much during the sessions about form re-design, there was not too much discussion about avoiding field abstraction from home-based records through imaging. There was brief mention and some seem to feel apprehensive due to privacy concerns, but surely a shield could be created to avoid capturing personal identifiers beyond the survey assigned identification number for each child / mother / household / cluster combination.

There is (well, perhaps I should say "may be") the potential for a fair amount of field work to test different approaches for best capturing images to ensure clear capture when operating in areas of low light or with documents that are of compromised quality in the field.

Attachment: draft 3 immunization module dhs-mics.pdf
(Size: 62.33KB, Downloaded 860 times)

Report message to a moderator

Re: Suggestions for questionnaire design [message #9961 is a reply to message #6878]

Wed, 08 June 2016 14:31

dbrown
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2015

Member

Hi Trevor,
Just wanted to check back with you (and Attila) whether there were ever any follow-up discussions on a form redesign for the immunization module as you begin testing for your respective next rounds.
David

Report message to a moderator

Re: Suggestions for questionnaire design [message #9964 is a reply to message #6829]

Wed, 08 June 2016 14:55

Trevor-DHS
Messages: 805
Registered: January 2013

Senior Member

Hi David,

We had updated the design for DHS7 a few years ago, and that update is reflected in the version that is in the current version of the women's questionnaire found at http://www.dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-DHSQ7-DHS -Questionnaires-and-Manuals.cfm. This was a fairly substantial revision, but not as extensive as you proposed. The design in the DHS7 questionnaire has not been used in many countries yet, so we don't have too much experience with it yet. At present I don't believe there are any plans to further update this module before the next round of DHS (2018), and we haven't discussed the module recently with the MICS team. We are open to further discussion, but it hasn't happened to date.

Regards. Trevor

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Draft meeting report
Next Topic:	How to decide the cohort year of vaccination

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Thu Dec 26 13:40:14 Coordinated Universal Time 2024