Before going live, make sure that you have completed everything on this list.

GitHub

  • Readme and Contributing files are beautiful and public-facing.
  • Launch version of REDCap has been exported as a Data Dictionary.
  • PsychoPy experiment is available either on GitHub or the readme file inside GitHub includes a note that it will be released on GitLab after close of data collection.
  • All code and data monitoring assets specific to the pilot data are moved into an “pilot” subfolder within their respective top-level folders (so that main study data may not reside loose in each folder).
  • Data dictionaries for all questionnaire and tasks are organized in the repo.
  • Central tracker data dictionary has been created.
  • Data monitoring scripts have been set up.

REDCap

  • Survey queue has been fully tested.
  • All screener questions and all questions involving identifiable data are marked as “Identifiers.”
  • No user role has access to output identifiers.
  • Only the appropriate lab members have access to the project.
  • Consent matches IRB-approved language.

PsychoPy

  • Experiment has been fully tested.
  • Only desired data points are included in the output CSV.
  • The experiment name and output file names match data monitoring conventions.

GitLab/Pavlovia

If participants will complete an online behavioral task:

  • Experiment has been fully tested online on multiple browsers.
  • Pavlovia experiment is “Running” and has credits assigned.
  • Mechanism by which participants access the task (likely via a link within REDCap) has been tested and properly outputs data with the participant ID (but no other identifiers).

gDrive

  • Study notebook includes launch date and any appropriate notes up to this point.
  • If using a gDrive study tracker, the lab manager has moved it to the special area and removed access to all by the subset of lab members working on the project.

HPC

  • All source data and derivatives specific to the pilot data are moved into an “pilot” subfolder within their respective top-level folders (so that main study data may not reside loose in each folder).
  • Filing structure and nomenclature for all data files has been planned and confirmed to work with data monitoring processes.

Protocol

  • Protocol is finalized, approved by the IRB, and the PI has sat through as a mock participant under this final version of the protocol.

SONA

If participants are being recruited and compensated via SONA:

  • Study is set up, approved, and active on SONA.