If your study is using Qualtrics, we recommend adding a completion URL, which will redirect your participants back to FindParticipants upon completion in order to track response rates.


This can be added to existing Qualtrics studies, or while creating a new study in just a few clicks and takes about 60 seconds!


Adding the following steps to your survey flow within Qualtrics accomplishes two key objectives:


  1. Providing completion tracking within FindParticipants, which allows you to quantify results from FindParticipants, as well as enabling us to compensate participants for being members
  2. Provides a unique identifier for participants coming to your survey from FindParticipants; allowing you to ensure distinct subject pool responses 



If your message uses any of our supported tracking software, your tracking link can be acquired in two separate locations:


  1. Your recruitment approval email
  2. From within your approved messages page (https://www.findparticipants.com/researcher/sent-messages)


Within your approved messages page, look for the button that says "Tracking" for the individual message:



Once you click "Tracking", you'll be presented with an overlay which contains your tracking link and instructions on how to implement.




Step 1: Using the Qualtrics Survey Flow


When editing the survey, click the "Survey Flow" link to the left of the preview and other options.



Step 2: Add a new Survey Flow Element


Select the "Add a New Element Here" link.



Step 3: Select "End of Survey"


From the new survey element which was created in step 2, choose the button titled "End of Survey"



Step 4: Click "Customize"


This will present a panel with additional "End of Survey" customization options.



Step 5: Override Survey Options, and Add Redirect


Check the box for "Override Survey Options", and this will enable the options within the customization panel.


Within the "Redirect to a URL..." input box, enter the tracking link from your specific message.  See "Getting your Tracking link within FindParticipants" for information.


It should look like:


https://www.findparticipants.com/view-message/[your message id]/?completed=true&participant=${e://Field/participant_id}




By providing the previous redirect URL, your participants will be taken back to FindParticipants upon successful study completion with their tracking ID and your message ID automatically passed, which allows tracking to take place within FindParticipants.


Step 6: Adding Embedded Data to Track Respondents within Qualtrics


In order to track respondents within Qualtrics who have visited your study through FindParticipants, we'll just go ahead and add another "New Element Here" from the "Survey Flow", and select "Embedded Data"



Once you've added the "Embedded Data" element, add two fields and leave the values blank, these will automatically be populated by our system, and are distinct to your recruitment message, and the participant completing your study:


message_id
participant_id




Step 6: Save Your Changes


Click "Save Flow" at the bottom of the "Survey Flow" panel, and send your study!  Our system automatically takes care of the rest!