Childhood Immunisation Project "Questionnaire"... WTF???

[InvisibleFlamesparrow]

DD came home from preschool today with this thing for me to fill in... is it really a genuine study does anyone know - has anyone heard of it "Royal Holloway Uni of London" Dept of Psychology.??

I started to fill it in thinking it was a normal MMR for/against questionnaire, but its got questions like would taking your child for 3 seperate jabs cause them more pain, and then would more pain be very good -> very bad!!

Oh, and then nice capital letters on another question "my URGE TO PROTECT this child is very strong -> not at all strong"

It feels like a bullying leaflet disguised as a study

(oh and I was planning on MMRing her btw, so I'm not feeling bullied for my antiMMR beliefs...)

i design questionnaires as part of my job and feel incenced on some of the poor quality of the questionnaires i get given.

wouldbe interested to know the outcome of this. have you googled them?

Will go do that now... (not that bright )

royal holloway is quite a prestigious part of the univ of london. dunno anything about the dept of psychology though. you should have been informed that the survey was coming and that the nursery had agreed to it being distributed - we had one recently which was part of a parent's MA (about children's nutrition) and we all signed consent forms as she also did a bit of work with the children in the classroom.

Its a voluntary thing - as in I don't have to bother to send it back, its just wound me up an irrational amount i think

Most surveys at least try to sound unbiased, but the feeling throughout the whole thing was "don't you want to protect your child?!?"

It was a bit about do you agree that MMR will help stop the 3 diseases in the UK, followed by "stopping the diseases would be very good -> very bad"

Royal Holloway collage is deffo real and is part of the University of London. It has nothing to do with the prison

They do have a psychology department
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there is no such thing as an unbiased survey, and how you respond very much depends on your state of mind/the language used - there was one mentioned on the Today programme this morning about giving Scotland independence/tearing up the union of the uk - so these things are language sensitive and it sounds to me like this is a subject you're particularly sensitive about. if there's a name of a supervisor on there, you could email them - try here

I was assuming the place was real (I've got itin my head that some of the original mmr studies were there?)... it was more is it a real study, or just some questions sent out to nudge people towards the jabs.

bundle is right - the english language is superb, therefore when writing such things if one is aiming for a truly nonbiased result its hugely difficult.

when you have an agenda its very easy.

however in both cases you can still have poorly laid out ones. ones that dont allow you to answer properly

or what is seems in your case deliberatley leading questions - use of bold

poor choice of response choices etc

Sorry - I've gone really ranty about this haven't I?

personally I would scrawl over it in large caps

"THIS IS AN EXTREMELY POORLY DESIGNED QUESTIONNAIRE AND I AM EMBARRASSED TO READ IT"

and return it to the school

its a psychology project .. probably from a student

what on earth can they hope to determine through such a biased and pathetically created questionnaire?

twigs last post made me think

do you think they are doing this ON PURPOSE

to guage the psychological effects?

maybe its a project on whether parents will mind-numbingly fill out any form that looks official despite the questions being obviously crap / biased / uninformative

Ooh quite possibly... they asked one questoin:

"Taking this preschool child for injections is easier, harder or no different to when they were a baby...a nd why?"

My response was no different because my feelings towards my child haven't changed! That could guage reaction...?

Puts up hand for filling in anything given to her!

i had something through the post asking if i would volunteer my 3 month old for a test program on a new injection and then take him to have a series of blood tests afterwards to see how well it had worked!
no chance!

who would do that?!

i mean with no money incentive

it was from university of bath or somewhere, i can remember exactly.
iobviously didnt reply then got sent another one a few weeks later. they havegivenup now. i was inone mind to ring em upand tell them they were freaks but dh calmed me down, although he was equally disgusted.

Um, but they do have to trial new injections. By the time an injection got to the stage you're talking about, they would have already been tested extensively on animals, and also on a small number of humans.

That being said, I know I wouldn't put my child forward for testing unless I had a very good reason (not financial).

Oh, and given the OP's survey is from the psychology department, I'd bet it's trying to figure out what response people have to the multiple-jabs thing, based on what previous questions you get asked. So the pain thing is mentioned, etc etc. There are probably several forms of the questionaire, with different questions in the middle, (hopefully) producing different end results.