Get the Responses You Want: Designing Diary Study Entries

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Summary: Design diary entries that get high-quality responses by balancing closed, open-ended, and multimedia questions.

A diary entry is the core data element in a diary study; it represents each response that participants provide to prompts. How you structure this entry template directly affects both the quality of data collected and the effort required from participants. There are three types of diary entries that can be used in a study: closed, open-ended, and multimedia.

Closed Diary Entries

Closed questions restrict participants to a set of predefined responses (e.g., multiple choice or rating-scale questions). Closed questions require minimum effort from participants, and they are usually easy to map onto a quantitative measure.

Use structured entries to:

This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Celine Santoso

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