Diary - Science topic

Hello everyone!

I am writing my master thesis together with a fellow student and we are having problems analyzing our data.

We conducted a daily diary study. Our model is a mediation model with the following variables:

- Trait self-control (predictor, estimated at the beginning, level 2)

- Digital Media Self-Control Failure (mediator, estimated via daily diary - evening questionnaire, 5 days, level 1)

- Goal pursuit (outcome, estimated via daily diary - evening questionnaire, 5 days, level 1)

We are really unsure how to analyze the data (since we didn't have HLM or multilevel medation in our statistics lecture).

We think the lme4 package for R might be suitable for our analysis, or perhaps Rockwood's MLMED macro for SPSS.

What we have found out so far is that we need to center our mediator using CWC. We also think that we need an intercept only model to test the ICC. After that, we are not so sure what to do. We found some literature for HLM and for 2-1-1 Mediation, but nothing that explained what to in R/SPSS or how to it. We are really lost at the moment.

I'm really scared that I might fail my master thesis because we are not able to the analysis.

I really hope that someone has an idea or some other input that can help us.

Thank you so much!

Sophie Kittlaus

How do you design diary prompts to ensure accurate and relevant responses from participants?

What methods do you use to analyze diary data and identify key patterns or themes?

How do you address potential biases in diary entries?

I am investigating engagement and inclusion with the natural environment with ethnic minorities. The research is designed to culturally competent and sensitive. I plan to use visual research methods and interviews. I have a photography task that i wish my participants to undertake but am aware that not everyone has a smart phone / camera or will be comfortable using such a device in a a public place. My possible solution is to offer other ways to participate ( i.e. diary, art or secondary images) but cannot find any literature on using different methods per participant. The visual data will be used a discussion point in interviews, not to be analysed.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.

Dear all, I would like to ask, what kind of application should I develop next. I have already done MolMarker, which you can download from: sourceforge.net/projects/molmarker. I like to develop a java based desktop application. I think itvwhould be something that helps the lab work for example, somthing like a lab diary, but any other idea is wellcome.

Thanks for xour help!!!

Dera Dr,

I have been working as a proffessor at Hacettepe University since 1984. We planned a MsC thesis on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients about their physical performans. We would like to researh the relation between pulmonary function and PA level is investigated. One of our outcomes is Bouchard 3 days physical activity diary. If you don't mind we would like to use your diary in our study. I am looking forward to hear your response.

Best regards.,

A. Ayşe Karaduman PT. PhD Prof.

Hacettepe University Faculty of Healty Sciences

Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation

Hi All! I am looking for a public dataset that includes a lot of text (such as diary entries) and psychological outcomes such as well-being, cognitive ability, mental health, etc... Does anyone know of any datasets that would be appropriate?

Thanks so much!

-Elliott

I want to sample virtual community members in a city for an academic research in travel behaviour. What sampling technique works? I want to use a questionnaire and a travel diary to collect data. Are there experiences I can learn from? Thanks

I am currently trying to figure out how to use Visual TimePAcTS application for analysing activity data emerging from time use diaries. I am having trouble setting up a database and entering my respondents' data. I was wondering if anyone here has had experience using the Visual TimePAcTS application and if so whether they would mind sharing with me their experience? 

PhD researcher Kerissa Nelson from the University of Plymouth Institute of Education, is looking for participants who can help her to reach the goal of her research project.

The goal of this research is to create knowledge and promote understanding of the psycho-emotional experiences of students with dyslexia (SWD) in mainstream classrooms and to offer an opportunity to teachers to consider SWD’s perspectives in informing their teaching practices.

If you fall into any of the categories below and would like to participate in this study kindly contact me.

The categories are:

South West students with dyslexia from mainstream secondary school 16 years and over:

You will be asked to record something each evening for a week in a video dairy reflecting on our experiences during the school day and when doing homework. As a part of the study you will receive a link to the video diary which you can access on your phone, tablet or computer, all recordings will be then be sent to me using this link when school resumes. For now, your being asked to participate in a semi-structured interview for no more than 45 minutes via Zoom (an online meeting facility).

You will be asked to participate in two focus group discussions to share your experiences of teaching students with dyslexia in mainstream secondary classrooms. There will be a maximum of 7 educators in each session. Sessions will be conducted via Zoom which will last no more than 90 minutes for each session.

You may contact Kerissa by email at kerissa.nelson@plymouth.ac.uk

I am collecting data from 3 data techniques: interview, diary and student compositions.

Should I collect "the codes taken from interview and diary" in one page and continue to produce themes? Then compare the results with the data analysis from composition?

Or Should I produce codes and themes first from diary, then from interview? I am confuesd a little bit. Thank you.

In a 18th century private diary, surfaces are never measured thanks to units. Instead of that, the landlord registered each number of trees. That is why I should need to know what was approximatively the plantation density, even if it probably varied according to the slope and to the quality of soils and watering.

Hi, I am new in diary study and intends to analyse them qualitatively. From my search, I found many articles that describe quantitative analysis on diary. Would appreciate if you could suggest one. Thanks

Hi,

I'm a 1st ywar PhD and I want to collect multi-modal diary data (for qualitative use) using Telegram (I've heard it has better encryption than WhatsApp). While I'm OK with the tech side (I've found out I can download chat data and convert to text to stabilise it), I am a little unsure about the ethical dimension of using a third party app.

There is research out there that has used apps for diary apps, but these have been apps that the researcher has had developed especially. I do not have the funds to pay a developer for such a project, hence my consideration of using a well-known, publicly accessible app. Another advantage is that participants would be more familiar with using it.

I'm really interested in hearing from anyone who can give me some advice here, particularly before I submit my ethics form for institutional approval!

Thanks in advance,

Lisa

I conducted a diary study. 3 independent judges analysed the data (with thematic analysis) and after deliberation all together now we have 6 categories.

Do I need to do confirmatory factor analysis?

Thanks

Dear all,

I am a Ph.D. candidate assessing the impact of the menstrual cycle phase in young females (post-PHV) on athletic performance - jumping and sprinting/

As such, I wish to assess the menstrual phase of the participants using:

1. A valid menstrual cycle questionnaire to assess their menstrual status, age of menarche, length of their cycle etc.

2. A valid menstrual cycle log/diary whereby the participants can log the onset of menses and their status during a given month, whilst also logging their daily temperature

Did you use such methods? If so, could you share them with me? If you did not, would you be able to point me in the direction of authors who may have?

Thank you for your time.

Lee McGarrigal

Any advice would be very helpful.

I am having issues explaining my sampling technique in my methodology. I have utilised a two phase sequential explanatory design collecting and analysing the Quantitative data in the form of an online survey first, followed by collecting and analysing the Qualitative-which is a consumption diary. The only stipulation was that participants had to be of a certain age Those who took part in the online survey (obtained via social media and general advertising) were asked to contact the researcher if they would like to take part in the consumption diary, thus I obtained my sample for the second phase of the research.

Any ideas what this would be labelled as? I have been reading journal after journal, but I am still not any further forward,

Thanks in advance,

Jen.

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone might have any ideas of how to conduct some potential analyses for some research I am working on. I am interested in the moderating role of trait emotion regulation on the relationship between state anxiety prior to solving an interpersonal problem (predictor) and problem solving in a real-life interpersonal problem (outcome). I want to hypothesize that individuals with high levels of state anxiety perform well if they also have good emotion regulation skills, but individuals with high levels of state anxiety do not perform as well if they do not have as good of emotion regulation skills. I have used diary cards for participants to track interpersonal problems that they have faced (the responses are coded) as well as their state anxiety level prior to trying to solve the problem. Each participant rated their state anxiety prior to 4 interpersonal problems that they faced (predictor) and wrote about how they solved that problem (outcome). They filled out one measure about trait emotion regulation skills. I have a sample of 50 participants right now. I do not think I can treat each scenario as if it were a different participant (then I would have a sample of 200 because 4 scenarios per participant and there are 50 participants) and run a test of moderation once. Is there a way to do some kind of repeated measures moderation without averaging participants' scores (this would defeat the purpose of looking at state-anxiety)? Should I just run four different moderation analyses, one for the first scenario, one for the second scenario, and so on? Or is there a way I could use a repeated measures ANOVA to look for an interaction? I don't think it makes conceptual sense to treat the first scenario recorded any differently from the second scenario because there were no experimental manipulations to create hypothesized differences for scenario 1, 2, 3, and 4. I hope this makes sense. I look forward to hearing what anyone has to say!

Hello fellow researchers,

Im currently working on a sensor design for diary industry.

Milk flow is totally bubbly in the industry because of which the proper flow measurement using conventional sensors like Ultrasonic sensors, Rotary encoders, Mass flow sensors, Infrared sensors etc are not giving accurate results.

The problem is for vaccum based bucket milking machines.

Are there any opinions for you people regarding the same? Any answer would be greatly accepted. Is it better to find a way to remove bubbles and then measure? Thats what i was thinking

if we collect data via diary and interview in one research can we use thematic analysis for the diary and grounded theory method for the interview data? or should a single method be used for the two data?

thannx

I would like to study on doctors' working hour

I noticed the formation of e red pigment on a typical  Arabic cheese, this cheese is prepared by Bedouins from the goat milk and conversed in a hyper-saline water, the pigment is formed only when the cheese is exposed to the air (out of water), is it a microbial metabolites? Is this phenomena known for other types of cheese?

Foods from local African, Asian, and Afro-Caribbean regions. 

Software is to analyse the nutrients in their 3 day or 5 day food diaries.