Hello,
You can use dropbox or if u have gmail, u can have a live share of your documents with someone else.
The problem for both is you are asking your participants to dowload dropbox ( this isn't an instant or live feed) or to make sure they have a gmail account.
Problem with drop box as I understand it the person has to be online and make sure they save it in the drop box, this can made easier if the diary entries are saved in one document per person.
The gmail may be a better option, once they open a gmail account, u can have a shared document with them, you can pretty much see what they write as they type. And u can talk to them on chat if need be, say they have an immediate qs.
Another way of doing it is just asking each participant to write in the diary daily and email it to you at the end of their day. This way you can collate them as you go along,or do as you like with them ( save all day 1 entries together, or save each person's individually)and you can monitor they are being completed daily allowing you to remind them for diary entry in case they have forgotten.
Personally, I would go for gmail or the last idea. Gmail does allow sharing of documents to be confidential with who you chose, but again, you are requiring your participants to open a gmail account if they don't already have one. But as you are not familiar with it, just asking them to email you extracts daily allows you to have them online, and make hard copies too..
Hope this helps
Nuhaila
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Subject: Re: Online diary-based interventions
Hi Hannah,
Google documents offers some sort of collaborative workspace. I have not used it for this purpose myself, but I notice that you can create documents (very much like word/excel spread sheets) and share with other users so that they can add/edit. I am not sure if this will meet your needs fully, for example if each document can be entirely confidential to that single participant, but it may be worth exploring.
Kind regards
Neelam Nigah | Researcher
Imperial College London | Dr Foster Unit
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From: Research of postgraduate psychologists. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hannah Wall
Sent: 11 July 2011 17:04
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Subject: Online diary-based interventions
Hi,
I’m a current MSc Health Psychology student in the process of working out the methodology for my research project. I aim to conduct a food diary based intervention but I was just wondering about the possibilities of an online version. I’m aware of online survey creators such as Survey Monkey but I don’t know of any option for someone to log in to this more than once (other than to create a new survey and link for each day of the diary which would be extremely time consuming to keep track of!)
Has anyone previously conducted an online diary-based intervention? If so, how?
Or does anyone know of any free (or relatively cheap) online survey creators that allow for a diary option?
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Hannah
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