Okay, I'm ready to begin my study but now I need to get sample poplulations. I am looking to question groups of OB's, Midwives and Pedi's. Since I am "funding" this study myself I can't afford to do too big of a mailing but would like a diverse sample. I was hoping for about 50 from each group. Could Lactnetters email me names/addresses of people in above groups? I am NOT looking for bfing friendly only practitioners as that would be a biased sample but I don't have access to phone books across the country. I've never done any sort of formal research (duh, can you tell?), so I'm sort of flying by the seat of my pants. I know enough that I have to limit confounding factors, bias etc. Figuring out my questionnaire was even tricker than I thought because I had to make sure the questions were in no way "leading" and open ended (HA how do you make a yes/no question open ended!). I've finally come up with about 10 questions. The study will be entitled: "Attitudes of HCP's to Strong Marketing Messages of Infant Health Care Issues" I will be looking at responses to Smoking and Breastfeeding messages and comparing them. Again if anyone has advice or suggestions on how to proceed I welcome them! *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html