Advanced Study Setup Fields
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Fields:
Fields: Advanced Set-up Page
Here is
information about the fields (features) on the Advanced Set-up
page.
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Arm
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This field is
used to create a study arm. Multiple study arms should be used when
study participants will not all have the same protocol, e.g.
different instruments, different assessment schedule. Each row
represents an instance of an assessment per arm. Therefore,
click the New Row button to add a row for each assessment in the
first arm then repeat for each additional arm.
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If
participants self-register, Assessment Center will randomly assign
them to study arms. Participants will be evenly distributed
among the study groups (i.e. arms) unless participants are
registered by study staff on the Administration tab.
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Any variation
in the text entered into the Arm field will indicate a new study
arm. Therefore, it is important to ensure the names given a
particular arm are entered exactly the same in each row. It is
recommended you type in the initial Arm field, then use the
cut/paste function to complete all subsequent Arm
fields.
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Assessment
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This field is
used to specify the assessment number of each arm entry. Studies
may have an unlimited number of assessments.
There will be
an arm/assessment row for each instance of an assessment per study
arm, e.g. a 2 arm study with 3 assessments per arm will have 6 rows
on the Advanced Set-up page.
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Each study arm
must have a baseline assessment (Assessment=1).
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Day
Assessment Opens
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This field
designates when an assessment will be made available to study
participants. An assessment opens a specified number of days
after the first assessment begins. For example, if you would
like the second assessment to being one week after the first
assessment the number 7 would be entered into this field. If
you would like the third assessment to begin another 7 days after
the second assessment the number 14 would be entered into this
field.
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This field is
not applicable for the first assessment (Assessment=1). Therefore,
a 0 will automatically be entered and the field cannot be
edited.
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Window
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This field is
used to establish how many days an assessment will remain open to
study participants. For example, if the value in the Window
field equals 3 an assessment will be open and available for data
collection for 3 calendar days.
For any
assessment after the first assessment, a participant may complete
the assessment starting from the Day Assessment Opens plus the
value entered in the window field, e.g. assessment 2 opens 30 days
after assessment 1 and the window is 4 days, therefore a
participant may complete assessment 2 30-34 days after they started
their first assessment.
During an
assessment window, study participants may exit the assessment and
come back later to complete it as long as they return within the
window.
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The window of
time in which a participant may complete an assessment is important
information to include in the Welcome message (Basic Set-up
page).
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Specify
Instruments
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This hyperlink
will navigate you to a page (Arm/Assessment Details) which allows
instrument administration details to be entered. On this page
instruments can be grouped, administration order can be determined,
etc.
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Delete
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This hyperlink
will delete an arm/assessment row.
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New
Row
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This button
creates a new arm/assessment row.
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Save
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Saves changes
and updates
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Cancel
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This button
undoes your work since the last save.
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