I am writing my dissertation, about adults who trained at elite status in their youth, i am constructing a questionnaire with the goal of seeing, how many sustained injury, how many sustained long-term injury, whether they followed a injury-prevention measure and at what time this was introduced and also if there was any effect on those who sustained injuries and their physical and psychological wellbeing/health.
Just wondering if anyone had done anything similar or could offer any help, many thanks
The questions in your questionnaire should be in line with your research question(s) and problem statement. The questions must lead to solutions to the specific and general problem you are aiming to solve in your study. Therefore, you can frame questions from your research question(s), and the problem(s) you are hoping to solve.
Dear Yvonne Rose , Bayo Olushola Omoyiola is right: if your research is quantitative then you need to consider how to measure each of your constructs related to your research questions reliably. It might also be useful to obtain some demographic data from your respondents.
If you are trying to measure psychological constructs you may need to ask several Likert style questions then run a reliability analysis on them to turn them into a scale variable. Please see my study guid for more information.
Dear Yvonne, Rose
As you are developing a questionnaire, Bayo Olushola Omoyiola has also pointed you in the right direction. The problem statement and research objectives are identified. You did mention that you are constructing a questionnaire. http://www.fao.org/3/w3241e/w3241e05.htm provides extensive insight on questionnaire design which would be helpful.
A well-designed questionnaire should also meet the research objectives. The BRUSO model (Perterson, 2000) provides a rough guideline for writing questionnaire items. Acronym, BRUSO stands for “brief,” “relevant,” “unambiguous,” “specific,” and “objective.” (Source: Peterson, R. A. (2000). Constructing effective questionnaires. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).
What types of questions do you need to cover? - open-ended questions or closed-ended questions, nominal questions, "Yes" or "No" questions", and as correctly mentioned above by Peter Samuels you may consider Likert scale questions. Each of these types has its own strengths and limitations.
Article The Logic and Psychology of Constructing Questionnaires
might also be a useful source for you.All the best in your dissertation.
Cheers
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