👋 Community Introductions

Hello,

I'm Dan. I work with the Center for Drug and Health Studies at UDel, and I'm a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg. I work with Qualtrics on a range of efforts, from national surveys to student thesis data collection to in-class survey activities.

The answers that I find on this community pretty consistently help me accomplish any given Qualtrics effort. This place is a great resource. So first of all, thanks everyone for all the help you've given me in the past even when you didn't know it.

I can't imagine I'll have many answers for others in a general sense, as I'm no guru at any of this. However, there are a few annual surveys (such as the CDC's YRBS, Profiles, etc; see https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm) that are opening up to electronic or partially-electronic administration and lots of us are using Qualtrics in those efforts. If there was some kind of user group for those surveys I bet I'd be able to help out there.

At this point I think each state is functioning more or less independently, but I think we're all solving the same problems since we're basically doing minor variations of the same survey and they all need to be as consistent as possible. So if we could do that here I think we'd be able to get a lot more accomplished, and the solutions would be more easily available to others looking to incorporate electronic administration into those annual surveys.

My next step here, I think, is to ask about creating a group/subgroup/subforum/tag/whatever for the YRBS and maybe for Profiles in advance of the 2023/24 administration. If anyone has any suggestions or input on that, please let me know.

Thanks all-

Dan