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

项目总结 我们要求对目前资助的NIMH补助金5R01MH111742进行补充 决定工作记忆训练迁移的中介和调节因素“。这样做的目的是 行政补充是申请额外资金，以扩大实现目标所需的招聘工作 由于与当前公共卫生和经济危机相关的意外情况而招生。这个 在线学习于2020年第二季度启动，目标是每人招募30,000名参与者 进行20-20分钟的工作记忆培训，每个参与者的预算约为0.40美元 完成奖励(以赠品的形式)。新冠肺炎大流行提供了一个实质性的障碍 为了招募。这一大流行对数百万人的身心健康造成了负面影响 并极大地改变了人们的生活和工作方式。这些因素，以及大规模的核扩散 与人类竞争的在线学习(几乎所有的在线学习都比我们的时间更短，每小时的费用更高) 主题研究已经转移到网上，以解决在全球范围内关闭的面对面的人类主题研究 全世界，以及与大流行和政治事件相关的无休止的新闻墙，都是意想不到的 对我们计划的30,000名参与者的外联、招聘和留住构成挑战的障碍 参加工作记忆训练。为了克服这些招聘障碍，我们要求增加资金。 这笔钱可以用来支付公关人员的工资，招募社交媒体影响者，支付参与者招聘服务的费用，以及 加大对参与者的激励力度。这一四管齐下的方法将使我们能够增长并保持我们的 研究，接触更多受众，受益于旨在将研究人员与 有兴趣的志愿者，并提供激励措施，以激励参与。我们注意到，随着脑力活动的增加 世界各地的健康问题，人们在寻求解决方案时可能不知道 有效的，我们的研究是及时和重要的。它花了数年时间来建立技术和进行初步的 研究以启动我们的在线学习。此补充资料对于确保该项目的成功至关重要，该项目可以 导致有效、低成本的干预措施来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.