Page 98 - Development of Questionnaires for Quantitative Medical Research

Despite the above contention, we must

emphasize that it is not our proposition that open-

ended answers are not allowed for a questionnaire

and therefore should not be condoned. In fact,

open-ended answer plays a very important role in

capturing detailed information and in exploring

new concepts or knowledge areas. For a medical

survey, the detailed information captured from the

open-ended question may not be analysed directly

but the information can be kept as a reference for

future use if necessary. If a researcher plans to

analyse feedback obtained from open-ended

questions, he/she will need to convert these