One day introduction to REDCap
September 13
Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.
The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
1. Understand Redcap’s user interface
2. Design a set of data collection instruments with multiple data collection points
3. Create and manage digital surveys and customize user rights
4. Test database functionalities and move their project from development to production
5. Manage data quality through data export and real time reports
Content
The course is a practical hands-on walkthrough of the REDCap data management system. The primary goal is to construct surveys and instruments with branching logic and data validation. In addition, the student will learn to manage user rights and create dynamic reports to assess data collection progress. Lastly, the student will learn to send surveys from REDCap to eBoks and to import data into Redcap and export to statistical analysis software packages (STATA, SPSS, R, SAS).
Participants
The course is intended for PhDs within RegionH or from KU, involved in clinical research using REDCap as their data management system and are involved in design, construction and management of schemes and collection of research data.
Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:
– All graduate programmes
Language
English
Form
Lectures, group work, exercises and additional hours (1 hour: Setting up a REDCap user, read through the Standard Operating Procedure Introduction to REDCap document)
Course director
Merete Nordentoft, Professor, DMSc, PhD, Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health – CORE, merete.nordentoft@regionh.dk
Teachers
Benjamin Thorup Arnfred ph.d., psychologist
Jessica Ohland MSc., Data manager, Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health – CORE
Dates
13th of September, 2024
Course location
Zoom
Registration
Please register before 16th of August, 2024
Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.
Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.
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