Second, we could not ascertain the number of missing items per patient because missing items were completed by participants following contact by phone with a study collaborator.
In case a patient returned an incomplete questionnaire, a study collaborator contacted the patient by telephone to complete all missing items.
A recent study conducted by our study collaborator, Prof. Vinogradov [ 61] employed computerized social cognitive training and found effect sizes of 0.53 on the MSCEIT [ 94] perceiving emotions total subscale.
Should participants fail to complete the 6-month follow-up despite these reminders, they will be contacted via telephone and offered an interview by study collaborators.
In fact, at some sites it became necessary to hand carry saliva vials during travel by U.S. study collaborators to avoid problems with customs.
Participants agreed to answer 20 to 100 questions on a Facebook app, MyPersonality, which was run by study collaborators.
Artist Burak Arikan will present his white paper on Civic Data Solidarity and is joined by two case study collaborators, Sinduja Rangarajan, data reporter, Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting on diversity in Silicon Valley and Jin Zhu, artist, member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project on environmental racism on Treasure Island.
However, the benefits of the method used were judged by study collaborators across agencies and levels to outweigh these challenges [ 14, 42].
On the other hand, the patients' reports were collected by independent external study collaborators in order to minimize the influence of the patient's relationship with their physician on the treatment outcome.
We will use the same sequential profiling methods as Lunney et al. [ 9] to allocate decedent patients to an individual trajectory, although the clinical markers we will use are different, and will be validated by the research team and study collaborators.
