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When to Prompt Surveys to Maximize the Responses?

When to Prompt Surveys to Maximize the Responses?

Surveys are an important tool to collect health and social science information. The first step in survey research is to design the surveys and with that, figure out the best time to prompt them. In this article, some recommendations in this regard are investigated.

  • Maryam Mahabadi
3 min read
A New Touch on Survey Personalization

A New Touch on Survey Personalization

Conducting a personalized survey means your study’s participants would enjoy a more unique experience. In addition, it would create a greater connection between researchers and respondents. Survey customization can also act as strategies to encourage participants to continue with a research study.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
4 min read
Online Surveys: Documentation Made Easy With Ethica

Online Surveys: Documentation Made Easy With Ethica

Documenting the data collection process of a study is partly done in hopes of letting others replicate and assess your project, and also helps with efficiently distributing a survey. Ethica’s Versions is a beneficial feature that allows access to all the previously published versions of a survey.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
A Higher Compliance Rate With Eligibility Surveys

A Higher Compliance Rate With Eligibility Surveys

Researchers can modify eligibility surveys as a screening technique. Eligibility surveys also ensure higher compliance rates and increased response rates. Ethica's research tool offers an option to create an Eligibility Survey that is presented to potential participants at the beginning of a study.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
Multilingual Studies: The Key to Inclusive Research

Multilingual Studies: The Key to Inclusive Research

By adding more language(s) to your study, you can offer a localized version of activities to participants with different ethnic and geographical backgrounds. Increasing the diversity of your respondents can surely induce more reliable and realistic conclusions.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
Making Sense of Your Survey’s Exported Data

Making Sense of Your Survey’s Exported Data

Whether you are monitoring your data or analyzing it, the data export feature can be beneficial for your study. Ethica offers a user-friendly data export process that results in a detailed yet easy-to-read file(s) that can be imported into professional data analysis tools.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
A Richer VAS Question: How to Use Images as Labels

A Richer VAS Question: How to Use Images as Labels

Visual analogue scales (VAS) are measurement instruments represented as sliders designed to facilitate assessing characteristics or attributes that cannot be measured directly. Among many other question types, Ethica’s research tool allows the use of VAS questions.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
4 min read
How to Join a Study

How to Join a Study

Recruiting participants is made easier with online research tools, as scientists now have access to larger groups of potential participants from various geographical and ethnic categories. Researchers working with Ethica have the option to recruit participants both directly and indirectly.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
6 min read
Rapid Research Deployment Made Easy

Rapid Research Deployment Made Easy

Quality research sometimes requires carrying out several studies with only minor differences. Ethica survey tool guarantees a rapid deployment rate by letting researchers create, modify, and edit studies efficiently.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
2 min read
How to Set Reminders Based on Participants’ Preferences

How to Set Reminders Based on Participants’ Preferences

Preserving the connection between researchers and respondents is another important factor that contributes to increasing the compliance rate. Ethica allows for further communication between researchers and participants by featuring flexible single and multiple reminders for each activity.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
5 min read
How to Create a Baseline Survey in Ethica

How to Create a Baseline Survey in Ethica

Some researchers choose to use a baseline survey at the beginning of their study It is easy to create a baseline survey with Ethica. This baseline survey provides you with information, based on which you can customize the app’s behavior and increase your research study’s compliance rate.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
5 min read
How to Check the Status of My Survey Session?

How to Check the Status of My Survey Session?

When you can monitor the receiving data in your surveys, you are more confident about the accuracy of the results you achieve. Through monitoring provided by Ethica, researchers are able to check if they receive the expected data and observe the balance and representativeness of participants.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
4 min read
A Look at Participant Onboarding Process

A Look at Participant Onboarding Process

One of the prominent concerns about using online research tools is how much study participants are willing to work with them. A simple and clear guideline that introduces the nooks and crannies of the online platform to participants is a cost-efficient way to keep participants engaged.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
5 min read
Criteria: How and When to Use it

Criteria: How and When to Use it

Research tools with user-friendly interfaces and features to customize the experience, allow you to adjust the behavior of your study’s surveys in various ways and increase the compliance rate of your project as well.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
6 min read
Customize Survey Notifications Based on Participants' Preferences

Customize Survey Notifications Based on Participants' Preferences

Ethica is constantly trying to develop innovative ways to facilitate survey personalization for participants. It makes it possible to prompt participants in three different ways: In-App, SMS, and Email.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
6 min read
How to Configure SMS Notifications for Activities

How to Configure SMS Notifications for Activities

Ethica research tool provides three types of notifications to prompt participants when certain activities, such as surveys, are due: In-App Notification, SMS Notification, Email Notification.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
4 min read
How to Create a One-Time Optional Survey

How to Create a One-Time Optional Survey

With a flexible research tool like Ethica, you have many ways of prompting surveys to participants. By employing User Triggering Logics and setting the right criteria, you can create a survey that is always accessible to participants for answering and disappears once it’s completed.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
Edit Surveys During the Study

Edit Surveys During the Study

Ethica is a very flexible tool that supports changes in the study protocols and allows for minor corrections if needed. As part of this, it allows you to make changes to surveys that are already sent to your participants.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
3 min read
Prompt a Survey More Than Once a Day

Prompt a Survey More Than Once a Day

For some studies, you might want to notify the participants to take a survey, or complete a cognitive task, more than once a day. In such cases, you should use multiple Time Triggering Logics. Fortunately, Ethica has made it possible to add more than one Triggering Logic to your study.

  • Kimiya Roudgar
    Kimiya Roudgar
2 min read
Contact Tracing Using Ethica
COVID-19

Contact Tracing Using Ethica

Learn about Ethica's minute-level contact tracking solution during the COVID-19 pandemic, while preserving individual privacy.

  • Mohammad Hashemian
    Mohammad Hashemian
3 min read
All-new Researcher Dashboard
Product Announcement

All-new Researcher Dashboard

Today, we are happy to roll out Ethica’s new Researcher Dashboard, which we have been working on for the past 5 months. You can try it out right now by logging into your Researcher account on Ethica's website.

  • Mohammad Hashemian
    Mohammad Hashemian
2 min read
Fighting COVID-19, Together.
COVID-19

Fighting COVID-19, Together.

We are offering our services, both the use of the Ethica research platform and our expertise in designing data-collection studies, free of charge, to researchers fighting COVID-19.

  • Mohammad Hashemian
    Mohammad Hashemian
2 min read
Personalized Surveys in Ethica

Personalized Surveys in Ethica

Learn how to use Ethica and create personalized experience sampling studies.

  • Mohammad Hashemian
    Mohammad Hashemian
6 min read
How low-skilled labor migrants impact the local employment brokers?
Social

How low-skilled labor migrants impact the local employment brokers?

Collaboration of Ethica Data and the University of Abu Dhabi and the Lahore University of Management Sciences in a research aimed to understand the intended and unintended consequences of providing information to migrants and brokers in the labor recruitment context.

  • Amin Tavassolian
    Amin Tavassolian
1 min read
First Nation communities with better social support have a lower risk of heart diseases.
social support

First Nation communities with better social support have a lower risk of heart diseases.

Recent research findings indicate a link between social support and heart health among First Nations people.

  • Amin Tavassolian
    Amin Tavassolian
1 min read
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