Birth Attitudes Survey

1. What's the main purpose for maternal healthcare researchers? Are they going to develop a new intervention program?

2. I agree with Danny. I believe gender could have a huge influence on the reuslts in this survey.

3. Do they include names for health care providers? Reporting names on the survey may influence participants and make the results become biased.

4. What's the potential sample size? Are we going to collect data from all of them?

Q1) How will they consider a "no opinion" answer? For instance, if they take averages should no opinion be included or not?

Q2) How can the validity of a survey be established?

Q3) Are the participants chosen based on specific criteria?

Q1) Are we assuming reliable responses within each group (e.g., among nurses) or must we test the level of agreement within each group before comparing the attitudes between groups? Q2) Should we consider an analysis based on clustering the type of questions (e.g., moral-based, practicality-based, etc.) rather than testing the overall agreement in attitudes? Q3) How are we categorising attitudes? Pro, Neutral, Anti, or are we keeping the 7 level scale of the test.

Q1) What is the point of this experiment? Is there a specific question they are looking to answer? Q2) Are all the sample questions points of debate or controversy? If not, are they looking to find out the amount of bias in healthcare providers? Q3) How would they like the ranks to be weighted? Is an "agree" equally opposite to "disagree" or will one side be more heavily weighted and for what reason?

Q1. For a midwife, do we consider wether or not she has children and gave birth naturally? Q2. What is the specific aim of the study? Are these questions cover the things we want to study about? Q3. Do these questions measure the same thing? ' When a woman is in labour, the safest place for her to be is in the hospital' seems uncorrelated with other questions. What is the Cronbach's alpha?

Q1) If the questions are not equally independent, is that rational to give same score to all questions? Q2) Sometimes, it is real hard to me to identify disagree, mildly disagree etcs, so is there method to test robustness of the result? Q3）In survey, is possible that some people fill in it very careless, is there any method to distinguish good survey result and bad one?