I am aware that this is a naive question yet wonder whether people would be prepared to share thoughts.

I am doing research related to quality in medical care. I would be interested if what the thoughts are from the various players in the healthcare process.

Obviously it would be easy to design my own questionnaire, yet instead of reinventing the wheel and have a tool which is not validated I wondered whether are any means to knowing regarding existing ones.

Is there something like a "Questionnaire database? Or should you just contact the authors of an article who state" We used "XYZ"... at least to get insight?

Try the medical algorithms project. It's free registration and contains info about many medically related questionnaires - they're all divided into clincial specialities, but not all of them are public domain and are subject to copyright so check their conditions of use.

http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx

Hi

No such one database I'm afraid. I had to obtain lots for my PhD too and basically did a combination of a few things.

1. Checked the article to ensure the questionnaire was not included (some do!)
2. Emailed the author and asked for a copy. Many were very helpful!
3. Googled (especially searching for the questionnaire title using the advanced search facility).
4. I also emailed other people who had used the questionnaire and asked them for a copy (if the author could not be traced or did not reply).

This site may be of use to identify some questionnaires and where you can get them.

http://www.qolid.org/

My dept also has a test library so I found two or three there. I would be worth asking in your dept as people maybe using questionnaires of use to you already.

Good luck!

Hi Kronkodile and Fluffymonster,

thank you for your suggestions, these are useful and I will definitely them.

Regards