Research Research On The Influence Of Trauma Centrality On Ptsd Symptom Severity

[PerfectEmpire]

Gradstudent,

If you did not disable IP addresses on SurveyMonkey, you can go through your individual responses to view IP addresses and then copy and paste them into a site like Dead Link Removed (there are many others) to view the country of the respondent. This way you can weed out the non-US responses.

For instance, 14.224.73.165 is in Viet Nam and 24.224.73.165 is in the US.

I have done research using SurveyMonkey and had to resort to this method. Even though I explicitly stated that respondents must be from the US in the invitation to participate, there were still people who didn't read/follow instructions and wrote things like "Germany" in the zip code box!

Of course you may need to consult with your IRB/ethics people before you proceed if you did not mention IP retrieval in your initial application/proposal!

Just a tip!

 

[Gradstudent]

Thank you PerfectEmpire, i will look into doing that. :)

 

[Anna]

oh non USA people are weeded out? That really is not a very good choice of words, especially on a forum that is international.

Would have been good to add that to the original post that you were only looking for participants from the USA...

for example, if you had written on the title

"Research on the influence of trauma etc etc- Participants from the USA only please"

Also explained the reason why, such as sample size etc.. This would have prevented people from completing it who are outside of the USA, or from taking offence at not being allowed to participate which can happen.

 

[Anna]

As for the demographics, thank you. I did advocate for having worldly options but my advisor suggested just sticking to the US (probably because she did not think other countries would be reached). However, I appreciate your concerns and will look into changing that.

When I did my bachelor thesis I also did an online survey, but I included people from all over the world. Most participants were from Canada, USA and Europe. It worked ok. Why did you think other countries would not be reached? I am confused, this is a very strange idea.

Firstly, this forum is actually hosted in Australia. Secondly it is international. Also people here have PTSD, it is a forum for this. It is not very nice to disclude people or use words such as "Weed out the the non-us responses" as perfect empire said. We are people with feelings. Not just "Subjects"....

 

[MyStarryNight]

I took the survey. I think it was very well done. I would love to read about the results when you have completed your research.