I want to ask for advise on how to improve the response rate of a running study.
I am currently running a study for German prolific users. Prolific estimates are that ~1300 users are eligible for the study and were recently active on the platform. I need about 1000 participants. However, the study is active for 14 days and I have yet received only little more than 500 responses. I am paying £2.2 for a 14 minutes survey, i.e. an hourly rate of £9.42. As of now the 500 users that participated received an average reward per hour of £14.
Is there any way to increase the scope of the study and the number of eligible participants?
When I pause the study, can I remove pre-screening factors?
Does it make sense to stop the study and run a new one to get the last 500 participants?
I’m so sorry that I haven’t gotten back to you sooner.
Is there any way to increase the scope of the study and the number of eligible participants?
When I pause the study, can I remove pre-screening factors?
Unfortunately, it’s not possible to make those changes on an active study. Your best option is to end the study, duplicate it and make the changes.
From our end, I can ‘refresh’ your study which will notify participants about it again. Would you like me to do that? : )
thanks for your help. We received an additional 50 responses within the last two days, so I do not want give up yet. Also, our study does not need to be completed urgently.
“Refreshing” the study would be great. Do you have any experience on the effectiveness of these reminders? I can see myself running the study until mid/end July. Do you think we will get the remaining 450 participants?
I would certainly think that you would get the respondents by mid-July. We have been experiencing a general slowdown in the time it takes for participants to be recruited into studies which could be affecting you here. We’re currently investigating the issue, and I’ll let you know as soon as I get an update.
I’ve just refreshed your study, which should help with the speed. Let me know if you don’t see an uptick in recruitment
