Overview
This brief guide will provide an example of screening criteria. As well as a free screener template.
Screener creation is provided for a fee, however, if you would like to create your own screener you can use the attached template document. You can delete or adjust the existing questions as you please and include any questions that are relevant to your study.
Information on Screener Writing Services
A screener is a short recruitment questionnaire, delivered electronically, face-to-face, or over the phone to potential research participants to determine if they qualify for a study.
Our team of project managers are able to seamlessly turn your screening criteria into a non-leading questionnaire that will allow us to recruit the best respondents for you.
Screening criteria and screener are not the same! The screening criteria is simply the compiled main aspects of the respondents that you would like to recruit and the screener is the actual recruitment questionnaire.
Example of screening criteria:
- Females
- 20-40 year olds
- Have at least 1 kid under 5 years old
- Cooks meals at home for the family at least 3x a week
- Uses packaged seasoning/bouillon in their recipes at least 1x a week
A screener questionnaire would capture all the information above as well as some additional information in a way that the objective of the research is not immediately clear to the participants.
Example: Instead of asking:
- Do you cook meals for your family at least 3x a week?
We would ask:
1. Who is mainly responsible for cooking the meals for your family?
a) Myself mostly
b) I share the responsibility equally with my partner
c) My partner mostly TERMINATE
d) We don't cook at home TERMINATE
2. How many times in a normal week do you cook for your family?
a) 1x a week or less TERMINATE
b) 2x a week TERMINATE
c) 3-4x a week
d) 5-6x a week
e) Every day