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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

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.

Thanks for your respond! My University’s Qualtrics accounts does not accept any SDS….Do you perhaps other suggestions?

​@prlhsimonis ,

Based on the options you’ve explored, since you don’t have access to the SDS, you may need to use an Authenticator. This will allow the system to retrieve the embedded data from the XM Directory when the participant completes the second/third survey.

I’m happy to assist you with the solution design.
 

Please feel free to book a meeting at your convenience

: https://meetings-ap1.hubspot.com/arun-raj

 

Thanks,

Arun

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