Back to TTM ResultsYes. We collected a lot of information from the couples who participated in our study. This information was in the form of questionnaires, interviews, recorded marital discussions, physical data (e.g., body fat), and even saliva samples to assess hormones. Consider that if a couple participated in the entire study, together they provided over 600 pages of questionnaires, almost an hour of recorded marital discussions, 10 hours of recorded interviews, and 4 saliva samples! That is a lot of information to reduce to a manageable format so that we can analyze trends in the data.
We were fortunate to be able to collect almost all the questionnaire data via web-based surveys so we did not have much data entry to do for this project. To date we have entered all the non-web based questionnaire data, and we have coded all of the individual interviews. Right now we have a team of research assistants coding the marital discussions, and we hope to complete the hormone assays using the saliva samples this coming spring.
Given how long it takes to complete the data collection phase of a project like this, and how long it takes to complete the data coding and analysis, we anticipate that we will be writing papers and presenting at conferences based on this study for several more years. As new results emerge, we will post them on the website. We will attempt to contact the participants each time we post a major new results, so please keep us updated with your correct contact information.