Glossary

In this manual we will regularly use terms that may not exactly match what is called at your workplace.

Files

The central model in our application is the File. Each file is about a client. Access to a file is through the EPD module, which is started from the EPD. The EPD provides us with a number for the file.

Respondents

Each file has 1 or more respondents. Respondents are the people who answer questionnaires. The client the file is about is in any case a respondent (although they will not always actually fill in a questionnaire), because we keep track of who exactly the file is about on this patient-respondent. In addition, there are different types such as parents, caregivers, teachers. Respondents are about people, and this is where we store their name and contact details.

Questionnaires

When we talk about a questionnaire, in our case we always mean the list itself, and not a completion of it. So this is, so to speak, the unfilled form. For a questionnaire we know which questions it has, which scores must be calculated in which way, and what kind of graphs can be shown.

Responses

The above models all come together in the most important model of our application. Where a Questionnaire is the unfilled form, a Response is what you get when a Respondent answers the questions of a questionnaire. A Response contains answers (to questions), and after saving we perform the score calculations and also store them.

A response is attached to a file, and also knows which questionnaire it was, which respondent completed it, etc.

Non-response

When one or more questionnaires are not answered, RoQua registers a non-response. In addition, it is possible to create one yourself when you as a healthcare provider already know that the lists will not be completed.