Abstract

ZANCHETTA,, Margareth Santos et al. Conducting international online surveys: Trials,tribulations, and suggestions for success. NTQR [online]. 2022, vol.10, e514.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.10.2022.e514.

In the context of the need for the production of knowledge in low-and middle-income countries, as well as in high-income countries with their socially vulnerable populations and the concomitant, minimal availability of funding for international research, university researchers should innovate. This paper discusses critical methodological issues in the process of designing and implementing international online survey research. This is done in the context of responding to the need for innovation in the research methodology and research design in the field of global health. The focus is on data collection instrumentation to expand their responsiveness to the international field and the participants’ characteristics. The chapter is organized with the presentation of online international research, first presenting insights for an alternative and innovative design, then formulating questions to remotely collect international data highlighting survey methods, renewing a dialogue setting, and exploring issues of recruitment, attrition, and participation. It also reports successful experiences of the internationalization of research, intellectual partnerships, and shared successes in the process of creating, exchanging, and translating knowledge in the context of global health and the democratization of knowledge. The experiences are related to qualitative inspired research implemented in the continental sphere (Africa, South and North America, and Europe) with the creation of survey questionnaires for an exploration of narratives, experiences, and decisions. The mobilization of researchers’ social and professional networks, in addition to the constant reformulation of intellectual partnerships in research, is today the most common strategies to face the current challenges in academia. Innovation for methodological advances in audacious design for unpredictable fieldwork may require the revisiting of epistemological grounds. Emerging issues in this type of research, such as “research fatigue, should be considered.

Keywords : Global health; Instrumentation; Research design; Research methodology; Survey methods..

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