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Table 4 Participants' feedback to the HRA-O questionnaire at the three study sites, according to participants' educational level (low vs. medium/high)

From: Development, feasibility and performance of a health risk appraisal questionnaire for older persons

 

London (U.K.)

Hamburg (Germany)

Solothurn (Switzerland)

 

low

medium/high

low

medium/high

low

medium/high

Comprehension of questions/instructions – % somewhat difficult/very difficult

8.9% (57/642)

7.5% (32/426)

7.9% (11/140)

3.8% (23/601)

17.1% (54/316)

8.8% (31/352)**

Completion of questionnaire – % somewhat difficult/very difficult

8.0% (50/626)

6.4% (27/420)

8.5% (11/129)

5.3% (30/563)

15.4% (46/299)

7.0% (23/329)***

Use of assistance for completing questionnaire – % with assistance

13.1% (83/636)

8.5% (36/423)*

17.6% (24/136)

5.5% (32/583)***

31.4% (100/318)

14.5% (51/351)***

Perceived length of questionnaire – % too long

35.7% (227/636)

28.7% (121/421)*

33.3% (46/138)

27.6% (160/580)

60.3% (190/315)

53.0% (186/351)

Time for completion – min. (± SD)

51.3 ± 46.2 (627)

44.6 ± 34.6 (419)**

65.0 ± 31.6 (131)

60.8 ± 28.2 (576)

78.9 ± 46.9 (297)

75.5 ± 39.3 (330)

Dislike certain sections of questionnaire – % agreeing

4.2% (26/612)

6.8% (28/411)

9.7% (12/124)

7.8% (44/563)

11.5% (33/286)

12.9% (41/317)

Questionnaire should include additional domains – % agreeing

13.4% (79/591)

22.5% (90/400)***

14.4% (17/118)

20.7% (111/535)

1.8% (5/281)

7.4% (23/311)**

  1. HRA-O: Health Risk Appraisal for Older Persons
  2. Values are percentages (nominator/denominator) or means ± standard deviations (denominator).
  3. Denominators vary due to missing individual answers.
  4. * denotes .01 <= P < .05; ** denotes .001 <= P < .01; *** denotes P < .001; P-values are based on Fisher's exact test (binary variables) and t-test (continuous variables).