Table 5 |.
Items to report and recommendations in the Craving Assessment categories (categories 5 and 6) of the checklist
| Subcategories | Main items to report | Item importance (1–5) | Specific recommendation to report | Recommendation inclusion |
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| Craving Assessment Inside Scanner, Presence | 5.1. Craving assessment inside the scanner | 4.41 (0.72) | - | - |
| Craving Assessment Inside Scanner, Time Points | 5.2. Description of the time points at which craving-related a assessment is performed inside the scanner (e.g., before and/or after each cue/event/block/trial/scan/ run/session) (Yes/No/Not Applicable (in cases when there is no assessment inside the scanner)) | 4.47 (0.69) | 5.2.1. Report the time frame of craving ssessment (i.e., now (after cue presentation) or during cue presentation) | 48 (100%) |
| Craving Assessment Inside Scanner, Instrument(s) | 5.3. Description of the instrument (s) used to assess craving and craving-related constructs inside the scanner (Yes/No/Not Applicable (in cases when there is no assessment inside the scanner)) | 4.53 (0.73) | 5.3.1. Report the exact characteristics of the instrument(s) used to assess craving and craving constructs (e.g., urge, desire, interest, like vs. want) inside the scanner, including number of items, range of possible responses, whether it was VAS or Likert, internal consistency and whether any transformations were applied to the instrument and its scores before the data collection and analysis 5.3.2. Cite any relevant sources of instruments, and whenever possible, provide the exact wording of the craving question(s) 5.3.3. Provide information on the start position of the slider, when using VAS or other continuous scales with a slider (e.g., in the middle or lateral ends of the scales) 5.3.4. Report information on the reliability of the instrument if the instrument(s) was administered repeatedly before/during/after scanning |
48 (100%) 42 (88%) 34 (71%) 37 (77%) |
| Craving Assessment Inside Scanner, Technology | 5.4. Description of the hardware used to obtain participant responses, with specifications of models and brands of devices, if necessary (e.g., response box and fiber-optic pad) (Yes/No/Not Applicable (in cases when there is no assessment inside the scanner)) | 4.53 (0.73) | - | - |
| General Recommendations | 5.0.1. Report analyses related to the craving measurements, i.e., whether they differed between the main group and control(s) or from pre- to post-scan 5.0.2. Probe and report physiological correlates of craving (i.e., skin conductance, heart rate, temperature, respiration and blood volume pulse amplitude) before/during/after cue presentation | 45 (94%) 28 (58%) |
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| Craving Assessment Outside Scanner, Presence | 6.1. Any craving-related assessment outside the scanner | 4.24 (0.95) | 6.1.1. Probe and report craving assessment outside or inside the scanner in FDCR tasks. The assessment of cue-induced craving is of great relevance to the validity of the FDCR task. Thus, the authors should at least clarify whether they have considered including a craving assessment inside/ outside the scanner, even if they have finally decided not to report the results | 40 (89%) |
| Craving Assessment Outside Scanner, Time Points | 6.2. Description of the time points at which craving-related assessment is performed outside the scanner (e.g., immediately before entering the scanner or immediately after exiting the scanner) (Yes/No/Not Applicable (in cases when there is no assessment outside the scanner)) | 4.21 (0.95) | - | - |
| Craving Assessment Outside Scanner, Instrument(s) | 6.3. Description of the instrument (s) used to assess craving and craving-related constructs outside the scanner (Yes/No/Not Applicable (in cases when there is no assessment outside the scanner)) | 4.3 (0.93) | 6.3.1. Report the exact characteristics of the instrument(s) used to assess craving and craving constructs (e.g., urge, desire, interest, like vs. want) outside the scanner, including number of items, range of responses, internal consistency whether it was VAS or Likert and whether any transformations were applied to the instrument and its scores before the data collection and analysis 6.3.2 Cite any relevant sources of instruments, and whenever possible, provide the exact wording of the craving question(s) 6.3.3 Report that the instrument is self-assessed or experimenter assessed 6.3.4 Report the time frame of craving assessment (i.e., now or during the scan) |
45 (96%) 44 (94%) 42 (89%) 45 (96%) |
| General Recommendations | 6.0.1. Report analyses related to the craving measurements, i.e., whether they differed between the main group and control(s) or from pre- to post-scan 6.0.2. Probe and report physiological correlates of craving (i.e., skin conductance, heart rate, temperature, respiration and blood volume pulse amplitude) before/during/after cue presentation 6.0.3. Probe cue-provoked behaviors (e.g., drug-seeking or using behaviors) after scanning, whenever possible |
44 (94%) 28 (61%) 32 (71%) |
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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.