Understanding Mediating and Moderating Factors that Determine Transfer of Working Memory Training

项目摘要 我们正在请求对目前资助的NIMH赠款5R01MH111742进行补充，“了解 中介和调节因素，决定转移的工作记忆训练”。这样做的目的 行政补充是要求增加资金，以扩大达到目标所需的征聘工作 由于与当前公共卫生和经济危机有关的意外情况，的 2020年第二季度启动了在线研究，目标是招募30，000名参与者 进行20次20分钟的工作记忆培训，预算为每位参与者0.40美元左右， 完成奖励（以赠品的形式）。2019冠状病毒病大流行为我们提供了 到招聘。这一大流行病对数百万人的身心健康产生了负面影响 并极大地改变了人们的生活和工作方式。这些因素，沿着大规模增殖， 竞争的在线研究（几乎所有的研究都比我们的研究需要更少的时间，每小时支付更多的费用）， 主题研究已经转移到网上，以解决在人的主题研究被关闭周围 世界，以及与流行病和政治事件有关的不断的新闻墙，是意料之外的 这些障碍阻碍了我们计划在2020年年底前 参加工作记忆训练为了克服这些招聘障碍，我们正在申请额外资金， 可用于支付公关人员，招募社交媒体影响者，支付参与者招募服务，以及 增加对参与者的激励。这种四管齐下的方法将使我们能够发展并保持我们的 研究，接触更多的受众，受益于旨在将研究人员与 感兴趣的志愿者，并提供激励措施，鼓励参与。我们注意到，随着心理健康水平的提高， 世界各地的健康问题，人们寻求解决方案，而不知道这可能是 我们的研究是及时和重要的。它花了多年时间来建立技术和进行初步的 研究，以启动我们的在线研究。该补充对于确保该项目的成功至关重要， 导致有效，低成本的干预措施，以改善认知障碍可能会改变数百万人的生活 世界各地的人们。

PROJECT SUMMARY We are requesting a supplement to the currently funded NIMH grant 5R01MH111742, “Understanding Mediating and Moderating Factors that Determine Transfer of Working Memory Training”. The purpose of this administrative supplement is to request additional funds to expand recruitment efforts needed to reach target enrollment due to unanticipated circumstances related to the current public health and economic crises. The online study was launched in second quarter 2020 with the target of recruiting 30,000 participants to each conduct twenty, 20-minute working memory training sessions, budgeted with around $0.40 per participant for completion incentives (in the form of give-aways). The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a substantial barrier to recruitment. The pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of millions of individuals and has substantially restructured the way people live and work. These factors, along with mass proliferation of competing online studies (almost all of which require less time and pay more per hour than ours) as human subject research has moved online to address in-person human subject research being closed down around the world, and the unceasing wall of press associated with the pandemic and political events, are unanticipated obstacles that have challenged outreach, recruitment and retention of the 30,000 participants that we plan to enroll in working memory training. To overcome these recruitment barriers, we are requesting additional funds that can be used to pay a publicist, recruit social media influencers, pay participant recruitment services, and increase incentives for participants. This 4-pronged approach will allow us to grow and maintain visibility for our study, reach additional audiences, benefit from professional platforms designed to connect researchers with interested volunteers, and provide incentives to motivate participation. We note that with increases of mental health problems throughout the world, and people seeking solutions without knowledge of which may be effective, our study is timely and important. It has taken years to build the technology and conduct the preliminary research to launch our online study. This supplement is critical to assuring the success of this project that can lead to effective, low-cost interventions to ameliorate cognitive impairments could be life-altering for millions of people worldwide.