IP address of participants tracking?????

[Sonia Picht]

Hi REDCap friends!

I have a concern that some of the data entry were done by one person due to monetary incentive. 

Is there a way to find out the IP address of participants?

Google search says IP addresses are recorded in the File Repository, but I can't find.

TIA! (= Thanks In Advance!)

Sonia

[Henry and Kelly Pahl]

That may only work if in your survey settings you have selected the option to "Save a PDF of completed survey response to a File Upload field"

[Amit Tandon]

Did you try MapUser in Control Center

[Sonia Picht]

Henry and Kelly,

Thanks!

It seems eConsent collects IP address, but I didn't use eConsent. 

File Repository didn't collect IP address.

I appreciate your help!

Sonia

[Sonia Picht]

Amit, 

Thanks for the great idea!

But my participants are from the same local community area.

It's good to know that I can locate the users.

Thanks! I appreciate your help!

Sonia

[Rick Watts]

To the best of my knowledge REDCap only makes the IP available for surveys that use the eConsent module. This is most likely because many surveys are intended to be anonymous and making the IP available would conflict with that.

I'm pretty sure the IP address is logged by the system so if you have a good relationship with your REDCap admin team they may be able to help.

Rick Watts

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[Peter Macisaac (POP)]

What a difficult situation for you.

It sounds like you are trying to identify/nvestigate research and potentially criminal fraud

There is an axiom in investigation (from watching too many crime shows I fear) about following the money trail.  Is there any records relating to where the payments flowed.

There may be statistical approaches to determining whether the data from one source is consistent with the variablity found in the population.  

I would  escalate the matter to your institutions redcap administrator and research ethics unit (if you have one) or the police

Regards

Peter MacIsaac

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[Sonia Picht]

Hi Peter!

Thanks for helping me again!

I am suspecting the person who handles participants' payment. So I cannot trace the gift card trail without asking the person. 

If my hunch is wrong, I would be greatly insult the person. 

I started suspecting because the behavior of participants' data entry was somewhat unusual. When there's a group of participants who didn't complete the second survey, after mass reminders are sent out, some of them, at least some of them, respond and start the survey. But this group doesn't change a bit. That made me think their emails and phone numbers are fake. That's why they (or that one person) cannot get the survey reminders. 

IP address was my hope.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom!

Sonia

[Luke Stevens]

Hello Sonia,

 

The IP addresses of survey respondents are only captured in the FR if you have set up your survey to utilise the eConsent framework. Regular survey responses do not have their IP address captured because it’s considered PHI.

 

Regards,

Luke

Luke Stevens
Research Data Systems Manager
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
The Royal Children's Hospital, 50 Flemington Road
Parkville, Victoria 3052 Australia
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