How do I set up a
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'Collect Data' event for a typical device (pedometer, scale)?
- After you add your device to the study, select 'Study Arms' in the left sidebar navigationfrom the Manage Study drop-down list. Then select 'Encounter Manage Event Schedule' for the arm where you want to add the device upload encounter'Collect Data' event.
Not sure how to add a device? See Device Upload Encounter'Collect Data' Event for instructions.
- Click the blue 'Add New Encounterevent' button and select 'Device UploadCollect Data' as the encounter type. Then select the sourceevent type. The devices can be viewed by navigating to the Devices section in Manage Study.
- Select the device from the options in the drop-down list. This will auto-populate all of the devices that you have set up in Way to Health. The devices can be viewed by navigating to the Devices section in Manage Study.
- Name the encounterevent.
Leave the 'participant message' and 'send notification?' options blank.
Tip! To inform the participant that they should sync their Fitbit or weigh in on their scale every day, send a one-time alert message with instructions or welcome to study message. 
- Choose the day when the encounter event should start and the encounter event window. The encounter event window is the time that the participant has to complete either a weigh in or a pedometer sync.
- Tip! For pedometer or scale device upload encountersevents, typically, participants are asked to start weighing in or syncing their pedometers on Day 0 or Day 1 and they have the entire day to do so (12:00 am - 11:59 pm)
- Indicate how many times the encounter event should repeat and then click the blue 'Add' button .
- Tip! For pedometer or scale device upload encountersevents, typically, participants are asked to weigh in or sync their pedometer every day for the entire duration of the study.
- For daily data collection, typically you don't want to send a message on the Collect Data event itself since it will occur at the frequency selected.
- Tip! To inform the participant that they should sync their Fitbit or weigh in on their scale every day, create a 'Send a Message' event with instructions or welcome to study .
message.
- You are now ready to build logic on the 'Collect Data' event. Click the 'Save and Define Logic' button.
- Inside the 'Collect Data' logic, you can designate completion or compliance criteria. Select If 'This event was completed' for completion or 'This event's data' for compliance (meeting goal).
- Choose the device field (i.e steps) and the operator (i.e >). Then select either amount or target.
- Amount: a set number for all study participants. For example, 7,000 steps
- Target: an individualized step count goal for each study participant
- Note: In order to use a target for compliance, a target generator must be set up from the 'Target Configurations' page. See Targets for guidance.
- If evaluating compliance, WTH will automatically set compliance as an action. Click the blue 'Save Feedback' at the bottom of the page.
- Your new 'Collect Data' event is now visible in the Overview of the schedule.
Want to send the participant a message based on the step count total from the previous day? Instead of building this as a logic message directly in the Fitbit event, send the message via an 'Add Logic' event. See Send a Conditional Message for more information on how to set up custom feedback messages based on devices and other event types.- Why should I send the message via 'Send a Conditional Message'? If you send the message using logic built directly off of the Add Data event, you will not have control over the timing of the feedback message. Way to Health will send the message to the participant immediately following the Add Data event closes, and this is typically at midnight. While Way to Health has a safeguard in place to prevent messages from going out prior to 8 am (unless otherwise specified in the profile), a participant may not appreciate receiving a text message at 8 am on a Saturday
. With 'Send a Conditional Message' you can control the timing of the feedback messaging.
- Why should I send the message via 'Send a Conditional Message'? If you send the message using logic built directly off of the Add Data event, you will not have control over the timing of the feedback message. Way to Health will send the message to the participant immediately following the Add Data event closes, and this is typically at midnight. While Way to Health has a safeguard in place to prevent messages from going out prior to 8 am (unless otherwise specified in the profile), a participant may not appreciate receiving a text message at 8 am on a Saturday
- If you want to relay the participant's target to them in the daily message (i.e. 'You only walked X steps yesterday and your goal was Y steps. Try harder today!') then you should build this as a 'Send a Conditional Message' Event and use your defined Variables.
