The Preventing Suicide Network (PSN) Web Site Survey

Some of the questions listed here ask for you to rate the PSN Web site by clicking on the numbered button that best reflects your reactions. For those questions, please click on the numbered button that best reflects your opinion. Other questions ask you to write your reactions to open ended questions. Please type your reactions to the open-ended questions in the space provided below. You may take as much space as you need.

There are four sections to this survey. While we encourage you to complete the entire survey, you may leave sections blank and still submit the survey.

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1. What (if any) portion of the PSN Web site did you find particularly helpful? (Give a reason for your answer.)

2. What (if any) portion of the PSN Web site did you find particularly unhelpful? (Give a reason for your answer.)

2.1 If you speak Spanish, please answer Questions 2.2 to 2.4, otherwise please go to question 3.0.

2.2 The Web site that you are about to view was translated from the PSN English site into Spanish, if you can read both Spanish and English, access the following page from the English site at: http://www.preventingsuicide.com and compare it to the same page at: http://www.preventingsuicide.com/spanish_index.asp as translated into Spanish. Please do this comparison for as many pages as you feel are appropriate, and rate the accuracy of the Spanish translation. A score of 1 = highly inaccurate and a score of 9 = highly accurate.

2.3 Please rate the usefulness of the PSN's Spanish content to you. A score of 1 = highly not useful and a score of 9 = highly useful.

2.4 What comments or feedback do you have about the PSN Web site and its Spanish translation?

3. Questions 3.1-3.7 relate to the "intermediary area" of the PSN.

3.1 Which intermediary area of the PSN Web site did you view?

3.2 Rate your opinion of this portion of the Web site with 1 = least favorable and 9 = most favorable.

3.3 Give a reason for your rating.

3.4 What was the most beneficial content in this area?

3.5 What was the least beneficial content in this area?

3.6 With respect to your particular role (nurse, teacher, parent) what would you recommend to improve this area?

3.7 How does this recommendation differ from what is already on the Web site?

4. Questions 4.1-4.6 relate to "Conducting searches for information using the PSN"

4.1 Which searches did you perform?

tailored search

key word search

4.2 If you performed a key word search, rate your experience using a 1-9 rating with 1 = highly unfavorable to 9 = highly favorable.

4.3 Give a reason for your rating.

4.4 If you performed a tailored search, rate your experience using a 1-9 rating with 1 = highly unfavorable to 9 = highly favorable.

4.5 Give a reason for your rating.

4.6 What would you recommend to improve how to search for information?

5 Rate the likelihood that you would use the PSN to get suicide prevention information in the future. A rating of 1 = highly unlikely and a rating of 9 = certain to use.

6 Rate the likelihood that you would recommend the use of the PSN to others in the future.

Addtional Comments:

Preventing Suicide Network-Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction: Modified QUIS Parts 1,2,3,&4

Please select from the options in the menu box that best reflects your answer

Your Age

Gender

Intermediary Role Type

PART 1: Web Site Experience

1.1 How long have you viewed this Web site prior to completing this evaluation ?

1.2 On the average, how much time do you spend per week seeking information on the World Wide Web (Web sites or search engines)?

PART 2: Past Experience

2.1 How many informational Web sites have you accessed or worked with in the past year?

2.2 Which of the following hardware or software applications have you used? (Choose all that apply.)

PART 3: Overall User Reactions

Please click on the button that best reflects your opinion about using this Web site. A 1 = equals the most negative reaction, while a 9 equals the most positive. Not Applicable = NA.

3.1 Overall reactions to the Web site: Terrible/Wonderful

3.2 Frustrating/Satisfactory

3.3 Dull/Stimulating

3.4 Difficult/Easy

3.5 Inadequate power/Adequate power

3.5 Rigid/Flexible

Please write any comments about your overall user reactions here:

PART 4: Screen

Please click on the button that best reflects your opinion about this Web site's screen and information display. A 1 = the lowest or most negative comment, while 9 = the highest comment. Not Applicable = NA.

4.1 Characters on the computer screen: Hard to read/Easy to read

4.1.1 Images of characters: Fuzzy/Sharp

4.1.2 Character shapes (fonts): Barely legible/Very legible

4.2 Highlighting on the Screen: Helpful/Unhelpful

4.2.1 Use of bolding: Helpful/Unhelpful

4.3 Screen layouts were helpful: Never/Always

4.3.1 Amount of information that can be displayed on the screen: Inadequate/Adequate

4.3.2 Arrangement of information that can be displayed on the screen: Illogical/Logical

4.4 Sequence of Screens: Confusing/Clearly marked

4.4.1 Next screen in a sequence: Unpredictble/Predictable

4.4.2 Going back to the previous screen: Impossible/Easy

4.4.3 Progression of work related tasks: Confusing/Clearly marked

Please write any comments about the screens here:

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