Between your first and second year of medical school, you have joined a lab that is interested in learning more about why some HIV patients do not always take their medications reliably.

Between your first and second year of medical school, you have joined a lab that is interested in learning more about why some HIV patients do not always take their medications reliably. You would like to administer a survey. Your next step is to:

A. Start writing potential items

B. Use Pubmed to determine if there is an existing instrument

2. There are three instruments to measure attitudes toward quitting smoking, A, B, and C. A has a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.50, B = 0.85, and C = 1.00. Which do you choose?

A. A

B. B

C. C

3. You should think about your data-analysis _________ you administer your survey.

A. Before

B. After

C. Statistics? Who needs statistics?

4. You are looking at a new survey to measure attitudes towards COVID vaccination. This instrument shows a low correlation ( r = -0.2) with attitudes towards receiving the flu vaccine. This correlation indicates that the new survey has poor:

A. Test-retest reliability

B. Internal consistency

C. Convergent validity

D. Divergent validity

5. You volunteer to complete a survey regarding attitudes towards eating vegetables. One question asks “The reasons I don’t eat asparagus is because it tastes bad and is too expensive.” Why is this a bad question?

A. Poor face validity

B. Poor internal consistency

C. Readability is poor

D. This is a push-poll

E. Double-barreling  

6. You are conducting a study about quitting smoking during pregnancy. You ask “Please rate the likelihood that you will decrease smoking in the next two-weeks?”

A. Options or None, Low, Medium, High

B. Options of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, or 100%

Which are the preferred response items?

A. A

B. B

7. You are completing a study about attitudes of osteopathic medical students towards non-prescription use of ADHD drugs. Should you run a pilot study?

A. Yes

B. No

8. ______ of the ten most cited publications in psychiatry are for surveys.

A. 1

B. 3

C. 6

D. 8

E. 10

9. Should you include a quality-check in your survey?

A. Yes

B. No

10. You would like to publish a manuscript about attitudes of the Amish towards semaglutide for weight loss. Does your survey study need IRB approval?

A. Yes

B. No