Running your Study
Everything you need to know to set-up and manage your study.
Setting up the Research Portal
Setting up Empatica Research Portal for your Study is simple. You’ll need to first set up your Organization on the Research Portal, then work your way down to setting up your Studies, Sites, and Subjects. Setting up your Organization As a first...
Enrolling Subjects in the Research Portal
Your Site Manager can register (enroll) your Study participants (Subjects) through the Site Overview Page on the Research Portal. Before the subjects’ enrollment visit, please make sure you prepare the equipment: Fully charge Embrace. If you’...
Subject Enrollment Checklist
Before you enroll a new subject into your study, please make sure that you have completed the following checklist: The Embrace2 that the subject will use is fully charged. The subject’s smartphone/iPod that will be paired with the Embrace2 is cha...
Subject Overview
Subjects are the patients that are monitored in the study. Researchers are the only people that know their identity. Empatica receives no personal information on the Subjects. Every Subject has a unique Subject ID. This ID is agreed upon before ...
Monitoring Subject Compliance
One of the features of the Empatica Research Portal is to provide you and your collaborators with a tool to monitor your subjects’ compliance. Monitoring compliance can help you understand if study participants are effectively wearing their Em...
Ending the Study for a Subject
There are two ways for subjects to finish a study - by completing the monitoring period, or by an early withdrawal. When you would like to end the study for a Subject, please go to the Subject Overview Page and follow these steps: Make sure tha...
Transferring a used Embrace2 to a new Subject
Embrace2 is optimized for long-term monitoring of research participants in an outpatient setting. After completing or early-terming a participant, you can re-use Embrace2 for other research participants, but make sure to follow the steps below bef...