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Subject Management: Creating a subject in Castellum
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You have a person on the phone or their contact information and other important
attributes are available. This person is interested in participating in
studies at the MPIB.
The information you need to create the subject in the database should include at
least the following:
- **First name** and **Last name**,
- **Gender**,
- **Date of birth**
- Information on whether the person is **Full of age** or **has legal guardian**,
If the subject has a legal guardian, you will need to **Add guardian** (see
instruction 8.b.)
- **E-mail** address and/or **Phone number** and/or full postal address or
contacting details of the legal guardian,
- **Handedness**,
- **Language** (Mother tongue) and
- **Highest degree** (in educational manner)
You can either ask for this information during a telephone call or you can transfer
it from another source.
In order to create a potential subject in Castellum, please proceed as follows:
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1. Log in to Castellum by using your username and password
Please make sure you are connected to the internet and use your right username
3. Enter the first name and surname of the person
- The second first name can be specified, but does not have to be
- Keep the order as indicated
- First letters capitalized
4.1. If there is a **Match** found, the subject is already created in the database. You may edit or add information by clicking on **Details** next to the subject
4.2. If **No matches can be found**, click on **Create**. If you notice that you made a spelling mistake with the names, please do not go back and create the person again, but change the name in the following process
- 0 (regular) describes an adult person without extraordinary features
- 1 (increased) indicates children or adults with a legal guardian
- 2 (high) presents a famous personality and their children
In this tab, different legal basis for consent can be found
7. Add the consent that applies:
- **Recruitment consent**,
- **Study consent** and/or
- **Guardianship**
- Optionally you can enter the **Title** here
- You can edit the **First name** and **Last name**
- Define the **Gender** of the person
- Fill in the **Date of birth**
8.1. If the person is of an adult age, select **Full of age** and continue with step 7
8.2. If the person is not of an adult age or has a guardian for example due to a disability or illness, select **Has legal guardian** > **Add guardian**
- A new window will open
- Fill in the first and last name of the subject's legal guardian > **Submit**
- If a **Match** is found, select it
- If **No matches found** applies, click **Create** > Enter necessary information
in the fields provided > **Create new subject**
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The legal guardian is now added. You can also create several guardians.
By clicking on **Remove** next to the guardian's name, you can delete
them as the guardian of the subject
9. Click on **Save** and then on **Attributes**
- Fill in the **Handedness**, **Language**, **Date of birth** and **Highest
degree**
- If the person **Does not want to participate in the following study types**,
select one or more
10. By clicking on **Additional Info**, you can define the **Availability** of
the person
Example: The person can be reached by phone between 9 and 11 a.m. on tuesdays.
- Click on **9** under **Tuesday**,
- Hold the Shift-button and
- Click on **11** under **Tuesday**
11. Below you can enter a point in time when a person is available again
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Example: The person is abroad for 6 months.
- Select **Not available until** today in 6 months
12. You may also want to select whether the subject is **Hard of hearing**,
**Difficult to understand** or uses **Abusive language**
It is also possible to **Add a note** on your own
Please be aware that the use of note fields should be very sparing
13. Define from which **Data source** the data comes from and click on **Save**
14. In **Study Participations** you can add any studies in which the subject has
participated
- By clicking on **Finished studies**, a list of previous study participations
is displayed
- Hold the **CTRL** key on your keyboard while pressing **F** to open the
search function of the browser
- When you found the study the subject participated in, click on **Add to study**