Attachment E: AHRQ Survey Introduction Message and Invitation for Awardees/Scholars

ATTACHMENT E: AHRQ Survey Introduction Message and Invitation for Awardees/Scholars

Invitation message to be sent by AHRQ:

Dear AHRQ PCOR Training Program Participant,

In an effort to understand your experience with AHRQ’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Career Development (K) Award grant program, we have partnered with AFYA, Inc., an independent research and evaluation firm, to conduct an online survey. The purpose of this survey is to improve AHRQ’s understanding of program outcomes, which will inform AHRQ’s program planning and resource allocation as well as outcomes reporting.

Participation in the survey is voluntary. Choosing to participate or not will have no affect your current or future receipt of AHRQ funding. We will protect your privacy to the extent permissible by law by separating the responses you provide from your name, contact information and other identifiers (such as your computer’s IP address, your institution’s name). Your answers will be aggregated with the responses of all other participants before being reported to AHRQ.

Your perspective is important to us and I hope you take the time to complete this survey, which should take approximately 30 minutes.

Over the next 2 weeks, you will be receiving an email from AFYA, Inc. with further instructions and a link to the survey.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at (insert email).

Thank you,

[insert contact information]

Invitation message to be sent by AFYA, Inc.:

Dear Dr. _______________________________,

We are inviting you to complete an online survey related to your participation in the AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Career Development (K) training program. You will be asked questions about your experience with and impressions of the program.

Participation in the survey is voluntary.

It should take you approximately 30 minutes to complete the survey. The information that you provide is very important to AHRQ and we hope that you will find the time to participate. We request that you complete the questionnaire by DATE.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone (XXXXXXXXX) or email (insert email).

Regards,

[insert contact information]

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