Repeating forms are useful for various types of data collection. Some examples may include but are not limited to the following: data from multiple visits or observations, concomitant medications, adverse events, or repetitive surveys (daily, weekly, etc.). REDCap will allow you to 'Repeat Entire Event' meaning that all the event's instruments will repeat together and stay connected or 'Repeat Instruments' meaning that the instruments will repeat separately and independently from each other on that event.
The first step is to build the instrument that you will make repeating in the online designer. In this case we've made the instrument, "Medications". Note: The instrument can be either a regular data entry form or a survey.
Build out the instrument as you wish.
You may or may not need to designate the new instrument to the correct events
Go to Project Setup and review the Enable optional modules and customizations menu. Click 'Enable/Modify' next to 'Repeatable instruments and events'
We can then define how we would like our repeating instruments to act
For this example, I am asking the Repeating Instrument Tool to repeat only the medication instrument and I would like it to repeat independantly of the other instruments. Here are the settings.
Click save at the end of the screen.
These settings will make the medication instrument repeating. You'll see a few changes. In the record status dashboard a plus sign will appear to allow REDCap Users to add additional forms
For surveys, REDCap Users can additionally manage how a repeating survey will look for survey participants. They can do this by going to Project Set-Up → Online Designer → Survey Settings of the Instrument in question.
Under Survey Termination Options, users can create custom text for the button and decide when the option to repeat the survey should be displayed.
The veiw for Survey Participants will look like this.
Selecting "Enter an Additional Medication" will save the current data and display a new form
