Reply To: Topic Discussion 2: Data Management Process

[Nichcha Subdee]

According to the three main data management processes (project initiation, during the study conduct, and during the study end), I was involved in project initiation and conducting the most during the study. I was involved in some steps during the end of the study. I had duties to design data workflow, CRF, data entry/validation, write progress reports to EC, and document archives based on the discussion with my professor at the beginning of the project. Data manipulation and analysis are the only steps I was not involved in. To talk about which step I should have done better, I would say the data acquisition method because I used paper-based CRF due to its convenience for interviewing the participants, then I transferred the answers to Excel; however, it affected the document archive because we have to keep the documents for several years and we do not have much space to store the paper-based CRF. We have new research every year, so adopting Electronic Data Capture (EDC) for data collection would have been more efficient, offering better data storage and retrieval capabilities.