Table 3 |.
Items to report and recommendations in the General Task Information category (category 3) of the checklist
| Subcategories | Main items to report | Item importance (1–5) | Specific recommendation to report | Recommendation inclusion |
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| Task Design | 3.1. Task structure (event, block or mixed (events in blocks)) | 4.77 (0.7) | - | - |
| Number of Task Components | 3.2. Number of runs (if more than one), blocks (for block-designed studies),and events (including drug cues, control cues, fixations, etc.) | 4.68 (0.63) | 3.2.1. Explicitly define terms such as ‘block’, ‘event’, ‘session’, and ‘run’ with reference to standard checklists (e.g., COBIDAS), given the ambiguity surrounding these terms | 44 (92%) |
| Requested Engagement | 3.3. Instructions to the study participants on how to engage with the cues | 4.45 (0.83) | 3.3.1. Report the details of the given instructions on how to engage (interact) with cues and provide the exact text of the instruction. The interactions may be passive viewing (if there was explicitly no instruction or if they were asked to do nothing), free craving, attentive viewing, rating or classifying each cue, spatial cueing, inhibiting craving, etc | 42 (88%) |
| Temporal Information of the Event/Block Duration | 3.4. Duration of each cue (for both event and blocked-design tasks) and the total block duration (for blocked-design tasks) | 4.67 (0.6) | - | - |
| Temporal Information of the Task | 3.5. Total task duration | 4.41 (0.69) | 3.5.1. Report the duration of all sections of the task between the cues/events/blocks and within them | 43 (90%) |
| Order of Blocks/Events | 3.6. Order of block types (e.g., drug and control) (for blocked-designs) or event types (e.g., drug and control) (for event-related designs) (The order can be fully randomized (randomized and different between subjects), pseudorandomized (identical between subjects, but randomized once for the order of events/blocks) or not randomized (fixed order like neutral-drug-neutral-drug for all subjects) | 4.51 (0.72) | 3.6.1. Report if the stimulus presentation was optimized using any software (e.g., genetic algorithm or optseq) | 38 (79%) |
| Data and Resource-Sharing | 3.7. Sharing the behavioral task code or source images | 3.31 (1.14) | 3.7.1. Provide the task code and the code used for generating these sequences (i.e., GitHub or OSF platforms) | 26 (58%) |
Ratings for items (1–5) are reported as mean (s.d.) in the ‘Item importance’ column, and ratings for recommendations (Yes) are reported as frequency (percentage%) of ‘Yes’ reports in the ‘Recommendation inclusion’ column.