The QUEST questionnaire system
K. Morton, C. Carey-Smith, K. Carey-Smith · 2002
The thesis looks at the implementation of a computer-based questionnaire system, QUEST.The motivation to develop such a system arose from the lack of lifestyle questionnaires for general practitioners to use in health screening.In the course of producing a lifestyle questionnaire, the process of gathering information by questionnaire or survey was examined.From this a set of requirements for a computer-based questionnaire system were developed and two questionnaire models to meet these requirements were designed.The Question Order flow modei and the Required Information flow model are presented and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed.The Question Order flow model proved to be an unreliable way of representing a questionnaire as it focused only on question ordering within the questionnaire structure.The Required Information flow model was developed to overcome the main deficiencies of Question Order flow model by focusing on the information relationships within the questionnaire structure.The strengths and weaknesses of the implemented questionnaire systems are discussed.Several actual paper questionnaires implemented with QUEST are then presented, From this a.sAt of future recommendations for QUEST are made based on the feedback of users of the system.In 1994 the author continued the project as a research project.The aims of the research included: 1.To examine the questionnaire questioning process and develop a model of this process.2. To improve the useability of the Questionnaire Editor and the Questionnaire Player This project was instigated after the need for an adaptable health screening questionnaire was identified