Monitoring Adherence
How can you ensure that participants are in fact wearing their watches daily, charging their devices, and collecting the data you need?
There are a lot of ways to check in with participants to see if they’re adhering to your study protocols - phone calls, emails, or texts. However, this requires a considerable amount of effort and doesn’t provide insight into how the technology is performing. So what can you do?
With a third-party platform like Labfront, you’re able to monitor your participants’ activities on the adherence dashboard. This allows you to see which data metrics you’re successfully collecting, how much data has been collected, and which participants are missing data.
Learn more about Labfront’s Adherence Tracking→
If you’ve assigned your participants questionnaires or other event-tracking tasks, you’re also able to observe if those were completed and at what time, allowing you the opportunity to passively and remotely check in with participants at no extra effort to the participant, and to intervene when necessary.
Learn more about Labfront’s Task Management→
- So you’ve successfully completed your pilot and you’re ready to launch your study!
You’ve equipped each participant with their smartwatch, they’ve all onboarded smoothly and are connected to the study. Or at least that’s what they tell you. - But how are you ensuring that they are in fact wearing their watches daily, charging their devices, and collecting the data you need? You could check in through phone calls, email or texts, or perhaps have them fill out a survey saying they’ve completed the relevant tasks. However, this requires some level of effort on both your part as well as the participants, and only guarantees the participant’s perception of events; it doesn’t provide insight into how the actual technology is performing.
- With a third-party platform like Labfront, you’re able to monitor your participants’ activities on Labfront’s ‘adherence dashboard.’ The dashboard allows you to see which data metrics you’re successfully collecting from participants, how much data has been collected that day, and which participants are missing data.You’re also able to download the data remotely and at any time throughout the study to begin analysis at your convenience.
- If you’ve assigned your participants questionnaires or other event-tracking tasks, you’re also able to observe if those were completed and at what time. Those high-level dashboard insights allow researchers the opportunity to passively and remotely check-in with participants at no extra effort to the participant, and to intervene when necessary.
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