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Published on: September 27, 2020
Associations between Participant Characteristics and Participant Feedback about an Unsupervised Online Cognitive
M T Ashford1, J Eichenbaum, C Jin
1Miriam Ashford, NCIRE - Northern California Institute for Research and Education, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA, Email: miriam.ashford@ucsf.edu, Phone: 650-208-9267.
Background:
This study aims to understand whether and how participant characteristics (age, gender, education, ethnocultural identity) are related to their feedback about taking a remote, unsupervised, online cognitive assessment.
Methods:
The Brain Health Registry is a public online registry which includes cognitive assessments. Multivariable ordinal regressions assessed associations between participant characteristics and feedback responses of older (55+) participants (N=11,553) regarding their Cogstate Brief Battery assessment experience.
Results:
Higher age, secondary education or less, Latino identity, and female gender were associated with a poorer assessment experience; higher age and a non-White identity were associated with experiencing the assessment instructions as less clear; and higher age, non-White identity, and secondary education or less were associated with rating additional human support with the assessment as more useful.
Discussion:
Our findings highlight the importance of improving the design and instructions of unsupervised, remote, online cognitive assessments to better suit the needs of diverse communities.
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