Survey Shmurvey, the ins and outs and roundabouts of survey design
Session overview
Surveys are everywhere these days, especially on the internet and social media and some of them are terrible.
However, well designed surveys can help health workers and services improve by seeking information and data from consumers, carers, staff, and community members.
Surveys can also be used to evaluate the impact and outcomes of treatments and interventions by getting self-reported data regarding physical, mental and social health of the respondents. Additionally, surveying samples of the population can help get an idea of population level prevalence and trends of behaviours, attitudes, knowledge, and things like confidence or concern.
Using surveys is a competency that would help you inform and improve your practice, as well as measure the impacts of treatments and interventions.
During this session we will:
- Learn when and how surveys are useful
- Increase ability and confidence to design effective survey instruments
- Increase knowledge of the stages of survey design
- Learn about different types of survey questions
- Briefly explain reliability and validity of surveys
DATE
Wednesday 8th October 2025, 3:00pm-4:00pm (NSW) (2:00pm-3:00pm QLD)
Location
Microsoft Teams - Once you have registered the meeting link will be provided in the confirmation email and calender invitation.
About the PresenterS
Dr Avigdor Zask is currently the manager of Healthy Eating Active Living, Healthy Environments and Research & Evaluation teams in NNSW Health Promotion. He has been a health promotion officer, research and evaluation officer and coordinator and manager in the service. He has led a number of large-scale grant funded evaluations of health promotion projects on a broad range of health issues like physical activity and healthy nutrition in preschools and schools, harm reduction for teens, health staff smoking and exploring the link between cannabis and tobacco use. The findings of these evaluations have been published in over 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and most of them have included the use of surveys.
Who are the Rural Research Collaborative Learning Network (RR-CLaN)?
The RR-CLaN is a rural led initiative that aims to provide high-quality research education and training to healthcare staff working in rural, regional and remote areas. Our aim is to provide you with the education and training opportunities to build key skills in how to use and undertake research to improve healthcare delivery.
RR-CLaN collaborators:
NSW: Central Coast Local Health District; Far West Local Health District; Hunter New England Local Health District; Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District; Mid North Coast Local Health District; Murrumbidgee Local Health District; Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District; Northern New South Wales Local Health District; Southern New South Wales Local Health District; Western New South Wales Local Health District; Health Education and Training Institute (HETI).
QLD: Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (supporting Townsville Hospital and Health Service; Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service; Mackay Hospital and Health Service; North West Hospital and Health Service; Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service); Darling Downs Health Innovation and Research Collaborative; Darling Downs, South West Hospital and Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service.
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