Sample Qualtrics Survey

For my Qualtrics survey, I selected questions based on what I perceived to be the three major problems of my health community: lack of sleep, drinking culture, and elevated levels of stress. For my fourth topic, I decided to focus on physical fitness because that was the one factor of my community that I had the least knowledge in. Given that Clark Kerr is known for its student athlete residents, I wanted to see if this trend translated in the survey results.
After finalizing the survey questions, my action project partner and I send out an email that provided a link to the questionnaire to all of the first-year residents of our floor. In the email, we stated it was an anonymous survey that was going to be used as part of a public health project; we also provided an incentive to our survey-takers. Upon completion, each floor member would receive a chocolate chip cookie.
Along with the email, we reminded our floor to take the survey via word-of-mouth. Initially, we only met a 50% response rate after the first couple days of survey distribution. To fix this, my roommate Jessie and I knocked on every door to remind people to take the survey with the cookies at hand. Because of this method, we eventually met our desired response rate of 75% (18 complete survey responses out of 24 floor members. To ensure confidentiality, we made sure that each participant answered the survey on their own laptops.
The responses regarding the number of days out of the week devoted to moderate intensity cardio or aerobic exercise were not particularly telling since the distribution was moderately uniform (Hossain, 2016).
Though a vast majority (15 responses) did not diet to lose weight, almost 45% of the population were aiming to lose weight (Hossain, 2016). This suggests that those who were looking into shedding a few pounds resorted towards exercise rather than diet to achieve this goal. An interesting trend to note is that a little more than half of the respondents claim that they were just the right weight, which suggests that the most desired body type is of slim built.
The results that were of greatest surprise to me regarded stress. Approximately two thirds of respondents claimed that stress did not have any influence on academic performance though exactly half reported to have average levels of stress (Hossain, 2016). This suggests that though a few members of the community claim high levels of stress and its influence on declining health performance, overall people have their stress under
control.
The greatest problem areas, however, concerned sleep and alcohol consumption. All but one of the respondents claimed that they had some degree of a problem regarding sleepiness during their daytime activities (94%) and approximately 62% of those surveyed felt dragged out during the day during 4 or more days out of the week (Hossain, 2016). These two percentages both exceed the UC Berkeley population averages in the 2014 data report (90% and 44%, respectively). This, along with the fact that 45% our community did not feel well rested for more than 4 days during the week (almost doubling the UCB average of 26%) suggests that either of the three areas that determine good sleep (duration, quality, and habitual sleep efficiency) could be improved (Hossain, 2016). Another problem was that among those who chose to drink during the past year, only approximately 30% (5/16) kept track of their drinks all the time while “never” and “rare” cases consisted of a quarter of the responses; similar to the survey questions regarding sleep, my community statistics for this particular question exceeded the UCB average of 9% (concerning the “never” and “rare” cases). This data indicates that interventions regarding pacing oneself and being aware of one’s alcohol consumption should be taken (Hossain, 2016).