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- Fitabase Data Dictionaries
Getting Started
Set up your Fitabase project, invite your research team, assign roles and permissions, turn on two-factor authentication, and manage email notifications.
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- Setting up your Fitabase Project
- Setting Up and Managing Your Team
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Creating Google Accounts for New Participants
- Managing Project Email Notifications
- Creating Garmin Accounts
- Setting Windows for Data Collection
- Syncing Fitbit Devices
- Syncing Garmin Devices
- Manually Connecting Participants
- Inviting Participants to Connect
- Reusing Devices Across Participants
- Using Google Demo Accounts to Collect Deidentified Fitbit Data for Health Research
- Capturing Historical Garmin Data
- Preparing Garmin Devices with Updated Firmware
- Creating Sync Length on the Create Multiple Links Page
- Setting Up a New Participant with a Fitbit Device
Fitbit API to Google Health API Migration
What the move from the Fitbit Web API to the Google Health API means for your study: who must reauthorize, how to do it, key dates, and export changes.
9 articles
- Migration Overview: Why Fitabase Is Moving to the Google Health API New
- Who Needs to Reauthorize New
- How to Reauthorize Participants New
- Reauthorizing Demo and Test Accounts New
- What Happens If a Participant Doesn't Reauthorize New
- Changes to Data Exports New
- Sample Message for Participants New
- Key Dates and Timeline New
- Migration FAQ New
Working with Participants
Connect participant devices with invitation links or manual setup, set data collection windows and sync lengths, reuse devices, and share participant tips.
8 articles
Using the Dashboard
Monitor your study from the Fitabase dashboard: filter participants, track device compliance and battery, edit participant profiles, and organize with tags.
4 articles
Exporting Data
Download Fitabase data with the Batch Export tool or individual report pages, review data dictionaries and sample data sets, and handle extra-large exports.
5 articles
Fitabase API
Use the Fitabase API to pull study data programmatically: authentication, the available core endpoints, and automated file transfers with the Batch Export API.
4 articles
Working with the IRB
Prepare your IRB submission with answers on Fitabase data security and privacy, plus example IRB protocol language, consent text, and a sample consent form.
5 articles
Messaging & Reminders
Send SMS reminders to research participants: enroll phone numbers in the right format, set messaging windows, and understand SMS character and segment limits.
4 articles
Learn About Google Health & Fitbit Data
Understand Fitbit and Google Health data in Fitabase: syncing, data resolutions and availability, sleep stages, activity logs, Active Zone Minutes and accounts.
10 articles
- Syncing Fitbit Devices
- Using Google Demo Accounts to Collect Deidentified Fitbit Data for Health Research
- Creating Google Accounts for New Participants
- Data Availability & Integrity
- Blinding Fitbit Devices
- Fitbit App Data Usage
- Data Resolutions
- Activity Logs
- Interpreting Sleep Stage Data Updated
- Active Zone Minutes