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Hi all,

I would like to get some support with regards of the design of a three wave survey that I am working on. I've been working on this for days but can’t find a solution…. 

I am conducting a three wave study via Prolific, using Qualtrics. Participants will use an anonymous link to enter the survey. In the first wave, I automatically collect their ProlificID and they have to manually enter the name of a friend in a text field. In the second and third wave (with an interval of 3 days) I want to remind them of the name of the friend that they entered in the first wave based on their ProlificID. 

I considered several options:

  • Working with directories: from my understanding this would require a personal link to look up the name of the friend from the contact list, that is no option.
  • Embed the company name in the Qualtrics link: this would also ask for a personal link, that is no option.
  • Work with web service: I have been try this (host a CSV on Google Sheets, run a script that looks up the name of the friend based on the ProlificID). However, I get lost when filling in the Web service block. 

Are there other options available to do this? Perhapse there is an easier way that hosting a CSV and writing script to recall this name from a web server?

I look foward to your thoughts.

Thanks in advance.

Paul 

The title says ‘Recall a company’, this has to be: ‘Recall the name of a friend’.

You can try a workaround with directories. Run Wave 1 using anonymous Prolific link. After Wave 1 closes, export the data with ProlificID + friend name. Then, import the file as a new contact list in Qualtrics, with ProlificID as the unique ID and FriendName as an embedded field.
Use that list for Wave 2 and Wave 3 invitations. Qualtrics will then merge in the stored FriendName for each respondent, which you can pipe with ${e://Field/FriendName}.

Hope this helps.
Rochak

You can try a workaround with directories. Run Wave 1 using anonymous Prolific link. After Wave 1 closes, export the data with ProlificID + friend name. Then, import the file as a new contact list in Qualtrics, with ProlificID as the unique ID and FriendName as an embedded field.
Use that list for Wave 2 and Wave 3 invitations. Qualtrics will then merge in the stored FriendName for each respondent, which you can pipe with ${e://Field/FriendName}.

Hope this helps.
Rochak

Thanks for your respond! One question with regards to this workaround, as I am using Prolific I cannot send personalized links to my participants? Or am I missing something? 

Hi,

I’m not familiar with Prolific, but maybe you could look into the Supplemental Data Sources (SDS) functionality:

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/sds/supplemental-data-sources-basic-overview/

After the first wave of your survey, you could extract your data and import the Prolific ID and Friend Name inside a Supplemental Data Source in your library.

Then, in the second and third waves of your survey, you will be able to use a Supplemental Data element in your survey flow. This will look up the Prolific ID in the SDS and return the matching Friend Name.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/sds/supplemental-data-in-the-survey-flow/?parent=p003134

I think this could work, as long as the Prolific ID always stays the same for a respondent from one survey to another.

Hi,

You can try a workaround with directories. Run Wave 1 using anonymous Prolific link. After Wave 1 closes, export the data with ProlificID + friend name. Then, import the file as a new contact list in Qualtrics, with ProlificID as the unique ID and FriendName as an embedded field.
Use that list for Wave 2 and Wave 3 invitations. Qualtrics will then merge in the stored FriendName for each respondent, which you can pipe with ${e://Field/FriendName}.

Hope this helps.
Rochak

Thanks for your respond! One question with regards to this workaround, as I am using Prolific I cannot send personalized links to my participants? Or am I missing something? 

 

Not familiar with Prolific, but perhaps you can set up your survey with authenticator with ExternalDataReference Pre-filled and distribute the anonymous link with query string of ExternalDataReference={{%PROLIFIC_PID%}}.

 

More information: 

Authenticators

Prolific Data collection

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