Questionnaire

Let us know what you think of Social Care Online

We are continually developing Social Care Online and would grateful for any feedback you can provide. Please complete this short questionnaire to let us know your experience of using the website.


PART 1. ABOUT YOU

1. How would you describe your role?
Other:

 

2. Where are you located?

 

3. Which type of organisation do you work for?
Other


4. Do you have a disability that affects how you use the website?

 

5. Do you have any comments on the new design of Social Care Online?

 

6. How did you hear about Social Care Online?
Other

 

7. Which other websites and databases do you use for information about social care?

 

8. Which print media do you use for information about social care (e.g. journals, print publications, etc)?

9. Which organisations or networks do you receive information on social care from?

 

10. When searching for social care information which is the first website or search engine that you visit?

 

11. Which other SCIE websites or products have you used?


PART 2. USING SOCIAL CARE ONLINE

12. How often do you use Social Care Online?
Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Less frequently

 


14. Which search function do you use most frequently?

 

15. Which search functions have you used? Please rate them according to ease of use:

Browse topics

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Simple search

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Intermediate search

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Advanced search 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

 

Any further comments: 

 

16. Which social care topics are you most interested in?

 

17. What type of material are you searching for? For example: research, policy, legislation, guidance, practice material, journal articles, websites, full text etc.

 

18. Where do you currently source full text for the references you find on Social Care Online?

 

19. What do you use Social Care Online for?

To keep up-to-date
Undergraduate assignments
Postgraduate assignments
Post qualifying course
NVQ
Practice material
Research
For a specific case
RSS feeds
Email updates
Personal issues

 

20. Do you have any examples of using Social Care Online to improve your knowledge or practice?
Please include your email address if we can contact you regarding using these.


PART 3. CONTENT

21. Do you consider the results you retrieve to be too few or too many?
Too few but accurate 
Too few and inaccurate 
Too many but accurate 
Too many and inaccurate   
About right
Don’t know

 

22. Please rate how relevant the results are to your search?
1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent)

 

23. Is there any content you would like to see added to Social Care Online?

 

24. Would you like to see social care news or events in your search results?
News
Events 
Neither 
No preference 

 

25. Which of the following features have you used? Please rate them according to how useful they are.

What’s new?

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Databases and electronic libraries

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Journals

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Libraries 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

News 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Websites 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Email search results 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

RSS feeds

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Email updates 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Hot topics 

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)
Comments/new feature requests?

 

26. Have you used the help pages or online tutorials? Please rate them according to how useful they are.

Help pages

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

Online tutorials

1 (poor) 2 3 4 5 (excellent) (not used)

 

27. Please share any opinions you have on how we could improve Social Care Online?


4. NEXT STEPS

28. Would your organisation be willing to link to Social Care Online through your internal communication channels? (e.g. staff newsletter, intranet etc)
Yes No Don't know
If yes, please provide contact details:

 

29. Would you like one of our staff to train members of your organisation to use Social Care Online? Please provide contact details:

 

30. Please tick if you would like to be added to the SCIE and Social Care Online email mailing list?