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The Research Data Collection and Management Workbook
Missing consent forms, an instrument licence that lapsed, a database never tested, attrition nobody tracked. This workbook is an operational field companion: practical templates, checklists and SOPs from pre-launch readiness to a clean dataset handed to analysis.
By Dr. Rafiq Muhammad, MD, PhD · 242 pages · Clinical, survey and qualitative studies · Paperback $37.99 · ★★★★★ 9 reader reviews
What readers say
★★★★★ 9 reader reviews from Amazon
“This workbook is one of the more genuinely practical research guides I have seen in years. Rather than rehashing research methods theory, it assumes you already have a protocol and moves directly into the unglamorous but critical work of making data collection actually run without falling apart.”
Read on Amazon →“What stands out most is the focus on preparation. The workbook shows how small mistakes early on can ruin a study. For example, it includes a “go or no-go” checklist to confirm approvals, tools, and systems before collecting any data.”
Read on Amazon →“I love this book explicitely states common mistakes in every chapter and some of which I recognize too when I was a student and some that my peers had gone through.”
Read on Amazon →“This workbook makes data collection feel calm and doable. The templates are clear, the checklists are practical, and everything is designed for real research life.”
Read on Amazon →“This is such a very good informative workbook. It can help.”
Read on Amazon →“This book has over 50 practical templates, check list, and several operational procedures to make sure that when you’re done with your research, not only can you double check your documentation, but you can also make sure that your work is the best that it can be!”
Read on Amazon →“Great templates. Perfect for practical use!”
Read on Amazon →“This is a good workbook for research on data collecting. It also have a lot of good worksheets in the book as well. So you can do as you learn.”
Read on Amazon →“A good research management guidebook that can help you with Data collection.”
Read on Amazon →Sound familiar?
“I found missing consent forms three months in.”
“Every research assistant administers the instrument a little differently.”
“Participants are dropping out and I have no tracking system.”
“Nobody built a codebook, and now the analyst is guessing what each variable means.”
These are not rare disasters. They are what happens when a study enters the field without operational infrastructure. Verification, standard procedures and tracking, set up before the first participant, prevent almost all of them.
How it works
From pre-launch readiness to a locked, analysis-ready dataset.
Readiness checklist, operations manual, SOPs and research assistant training.
Recruitment and attrition tracking, data entry checks, missing data and multi-site coordination.
Codebook, file organisation, version control, a data management plan and a locked dataset.
What you will have
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Every template has a supervisor review column, and the worked examples come from clinical, survey and qualitative studies. These are real pages. Tap to enlarge.
Is it for you?
Clinician-researcher, PhD from Karolinska Institutet, and author of the Mastering Research books and workbooks, used by graduate students from the research question to the viva.
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Questions
There are field notes, observation, recording and transcription quality templates, alongside the general readiness and data management tools.
No. There are planners for REDCap and Qualtrics, and the tracking and quality templates work with any system, including paper.
Yes: a de-identification and anonymisation worksheet, a data security incident response template and a data use agreement checklist.
The final chapter covers pre-analysis cleaning and outliers, with a cleaning checklist and an outlier decision log. Both are in the Research Data Collection & Management Kit too.
Verify before you start, track as you go, and hand off a clean dataset.
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