Eligibility Screening
Ethica allows screening potential participants in your study against certain inclusion or exclusion criteria, and only allows those to join your study who meet the criteria. This is achievable by creating an Eligibility Survey for your study, adding the necessary questions, and then defining a criteria based on these questions. In this section, we explain how this can be done in Ethica.
You can screen your participants for eligibility by creating an Eligibility Survey. Such a survey is asked from prospective participants just before joining your study. Based on their responses, a participant might be eligible to join or not.
To add an Eligibility Survey to your study, start by navigating to the Researcher Dashboard and clicking on
Activities from the left-side menu. On the Activities page, click on the New button. This will create a new survey activity with the default settings. In the Content section of your new survey, add the questions you want to ask participants when they're trying to join your study.After adding the questions, switch to the
Triggering Logics and click on the Eligibility from the list of triggering logic types. Considering the questions you added, enter valid Eligibility Criteria. These criteria determine under what conditions a participant is considered eligible and allowed to proceed and respond to the study, and which responses can mark the participant as ineligible.Then, move to the
Preview and Publish tab. In there, click on the Publish tab from the left-side panel. Enter a Version Note as necessary, and then click on the Publish button to publish your survey.After publishing your eligibility survey, any participant trying to register in your study first will be presented with this survey. If the participant cancels the survey, they are considered ineligible and are not allowed to proceed. If they complete the survey, upon completion, Ethica evaluates their responses and depending on the results, either allows the participant to proceed with the registration, or informs them that they are ineligible.
Note that there is no limit on the number of times a prospective participant can respond to the eligibility survey. If they are marked as ineligible on their first try, they can try it again and respond to the eligibility survey for the second time.
Ethica records all responses given to your eligibility survey. You can access these responses by going to the
Survey Responses page. Then, select the survey from the list of available surveys and check the All Participants option and click on the Display button. You'll see answers separated by participants and questions.Last modified 5mo ago