Update this section to include the “R”-style design.

All of our studies use an online data collection system called RedCap. So long as you have an internet connection, you can use RedCap to administer surveys to participants. By having participants fill out the questionnaire themselves, it reduces data entry errors.

To learn about how to use RedCap, watch the tutorials on: http://www.project-redcap.org/index.php

When setting up a survey, and then moving it to the production stage, this will have to be approved by a RedCap administrator. This can take a couple of days. Also, if you need to make changes to a survey once it is in production stage, you need to request this from the administrator as well. Keep this in mind when making changes to existing surveys

When making a survey, there are two ways to do this: the Excel ‘data dictionary’ way, and the manual ‘online designer’ way.

• Use the Excel data dictionary when you want to combine many already existing questionnaires into one survey (ex. BIS-11, BDI, TCI all in one survey). To do this, open the data dictionary for each of the already created questionnaires, copy and paste the questions into a new excel sheet, and then upload the compiled data dictionary. This is by far the fastest way to create a survey
• You can manually create a questionnaire as well, using the ‘online designer’ in REDCap. This is slow, but is usually done when making a new questionnaire.