TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault

Appendicies - B Survey Analyses
APPENDIX B
Background
A goal of the project was to learn more about the types of violence against women (VAW) primary
prevention services that were being provided in Texas. A survey of stakeholders was conducted as
part of this project. The goals of this survey included identifying service providers in this arena,
determining where primary prevention efforts were targeted, whether efforts in Texas were being
evaluated as well as obtaining some baseline information on primary prevention activities in the
state. Differences in responses by type of service provider (health care setting versus other) were
also examined.
The survey was designed by staff working with the VAW prevention project and administered
between June and August 2003 to organizations or clinics thought to offer VAW prevention
services. 1 In this report, the terms “stakeholders” or “respondents” are used interchangeably to
refer to those organizations or clinics that responded to the survey. A snowball sampling frame
was used to identify a sample of targeted organizations or clinics. In this type of convenience
sampling, a small group of organization or clinic representatives working with the VAW prevention
project were asked to identify additional stakeholders to be included in the sample. One key
drawback of the snowball sampling technique is that generalizations should be made with caution
because the sample was not selected randomly. The location (by zip codes) of survey respondents
is available in Map 1.
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Copies of the questionnaire are available from the Office of Special Projects in the Family Planning Division at the
Bureau of Women’s Health, TDH. The following resource was used to design and implement the survey: Dillman,
Don, Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method.(New York: J. Wiley, 2000).
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