Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Consent for Research Participation

Title: Vocabulary Task and Behavior Study II

Sponsor: Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience- Research

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

503 Robert Grant Ave.

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Funder: US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

Principal Investigator (PI): Jeffrey M. Osgood, Ph.D. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Contact Info: 301-319-7475; Jeffrey.m.osgood.mil@mail.mil

You are being asked to take part in a research study. This study is supported by the United States Department of Defense. The box below tells you important things you should think about before deciding to join the study. We will provide more detailed information below the box. Please ask questions about any of the information before you decide whether to participate. You may also wish to talk to others (for example, your family, friends, or your doctor) about this study, before agreeing to join. A description of this clinical trial will be available on http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Additionally a copy of the informed consent may be posted to a public website no later than 60 days after enrollment is completed.

Please contact one of the below if you have any questions concerning the study or if you have any other questions or concerns.

Captain Jeffrey M. Osgood, Ph.D. (301) 319-7475

Dr. Phillip J. Quartana, Ph.D.(301) 319-9777

Key Information for You to Consider

Voluntary Consent. You are being asked to volunteer for a research study. It is up to you whether you choose to participate or not. There are no penalties and you will not lose anything if you decide not to join or if after you join, you decide to quit.
Purpose. We are doing this research to see if how people respond on a word completion task relates to how they behave and respond to situations in the real world.
Duration. Your part of the study will last about one hour total over two time-points (24-96 hours apart). You will be asked to re-review this document and re-consent to the study when you return for the second time point.
Procedures and Activities. This is a two part research study. At time-point one, you will fill out some brief personality surveys. You will also read several short scenarios and imagine how you would react and/or interpret these situations in real life. You will also complete a vocabulary task where you will sort word fragments based on type as quickly as you can. This will take approximately 35 minutes. You will be asked to return in 24-96 hours for part two where you will repeat a similar scenario reading activity as during time one and fill out a brief questionnaire about your recent behaviors. This second time-point will take about 25 minutes.
Risks. Most studies have some possible harms that could happen to you if you join. Although efforts are made to protect your research study records, there is always a risk that someone outside the research team could get access to the raw data you provide. However, will not ask you for any personally identifiable information beyond your public MTurk ID and will securely transfer and store all data in order to protect your confidentiality.
Benefits. There are no direct benefits to participating in this study, but we do expect that you may find some aspects of the study interesting, entertaining, and/or thought provoking. You may also enjoy the good feeling that comes with knowing you contributed to science. For science, we expect that the information we learn from this research will help guide the development of tools to help improve people's lives.
Alternatives. Participation is voluntary and the only alternative is to not participate.

Why are we doing this research?

You are being asked to take part in this research study because you are in the population of interest (English speaking adults). The purpose of this research study is to learn about how completing a vocabulary task where you are asked to create words from word stems with missing letters affects the way people interpret social situations and behave in real life based on the different types of instructions given during the task.

This study is looking at a word completion task. This word completion task has not been well-studied. This means that this word completion task is considered experimental for influencing or predicting real life behaviors.

There will be no more than 400 people taking part in the study at volunteerscience.com, over a period of five years.

What happens to the information collected for this research?

Information collected from you for this research will be used to evaluate the impact of the vocabulary task you completed. The data will also be analyzed and used for research publications and/or presentations.

We may share your research data with other investigators without asking for your permission; it will not contain information that could directly identify you.

The overall results and findings from this study may be shared with you. You may contact the PI listed above who will provide you with a copy of the research report created from this project when it is available at your request.

Once the study is complete, your records will be kept in secure storage for at least three years, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Records will be maintained until it has been deemed no longer necessary to retain them by the study Sponsor, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and then destroyed as per applicable regulations. Any future research using your data will require a research protocol and approval by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) (a committee responsible for protecting research participants) or other authorized official responsible for protecting human subjects in research studies. The data protections for privacy and confidentiality described in this document will apply to any future use of your stored data.

How will my privacy and data confidentiality be protected?

We will take measures to protect your privacy. Even with these measures, we can never fully guarantee your privacy will be protected. We will try our best to protect your privacy by doing the following:

To help ensure this, we will not solicit any personally identifiable information apart from your public MTurk ID during the study.
Data collected online at volunteerscience.com will be securely stored and encrypted when transferred to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Data will be deleted from Volunteerscience.com servers after transfer to WRAIR/ARL.
Data will be stored on secure drives at WRAIR/ARL.
You may contact the Principle Investigator with questions or concerns about the study, or to receive public copies of the research report when available without being required to reveal your name or other personally identifiable information. However, please note that all communications may be recorded or retained. As such if you disclose any personally identifiable information (e.g., sign your name in an e-mail), this may be retained. However, all such files will be kept confidential and stored on secure drives at WRAIR/ARL.

Your study files will be kept in a safe, secure storage area at the Army Research Laboratory and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for the duration of the study.

Will I be paid to take part in this research study?

Yes, for your participation, you will receive up to $5 for your participation ($3 for part one and $2 for part two).

Are there costs for participating in the research?

No, there are no costs to you for taking part in this research study.

Are there disclosures of financial interests or other personal arrangements from the research team?

No.

What happens if I withdraw from this research?

You may withdraw from this study at any time. If you choose to leave the study, data collected prior to your withdrawal will be used by the study.

You may withdraw your consent at any time and stop participating in this research study. Leaving the study will not impact your ability to receive any other benefits that you would have received otherwise. Note, you must complete all of the tasks for each time point to receive the payment for that respective time-point. Other than medical care that may be provided and any other payment specifically stated in the consent form, there is no other compensation available for your participation in the research.

You may withdraw by simply navigating away from the study webpage and/or not returning to the second time point.

The principal investigator, Captain Jeffrey M. Osgood, Ph.D., may decide not to allow you to continue participating in this study if you fail to comply with the procedures as outlined in this form.

The sponsor of this research study may end the research study and/or your participation in this research study for safety reasons or funding reasons.

We will tell you if we discover any significant or new information during the study that may affect your health and willingness to continue participation. This would be done via a mass-e-mail to all MTurk users who participated in any part of this study.

Who can I contact if I have questions about my rights as a research participant?

If you have questions about your rights as a research volunteer in this study, you may contact the Human Subjects Protection Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, phone number 301-319-9940 and email usarmy.detrick.medcom-wrair.mbx.hspb@mail.mil.

Taking part in this research study is your decision. Your participation in this study is voluntary. You do not have to take part in this study, but if you do, you can stop at any time. You have the right to completely withdraw from continued participation at any point in this study without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.

If there is any portion of this document that you do not understand, contact the principal investigator before signing the form.

Where can I find prior research related to this study?

This study is testing a new computer task that has not been published in prior research. However, the following recently published paper discusses related research:

Tuente, S. K., Bogaerts, S., & Veling, W. (2019). Hostile attribution bias and aggression in adults-a systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior.

Clicking "I consent" means that you consent to participate in this research, at this time.