Updating Your Preregistration

Updating your Preregistration

Having preregistered for GFS data, you may return to your preregistration and add updates including:

• Request new data
• Add additional research questions and analyses
• Correct any errors in your preregistration
• Add details for IRB
• Add Registered Reports information

Fixed Metadata in your Preregistration

Some Metadata in your preregistration is fixed and cannot be amended including:

• Title
• Subjects
• Tags
• Uploaded files

Description of Changes

Include a thorough explanation as to why the change was necessary including:

• Description of the change
• Rationale for the change
• Impact on the study

Contributor Permissions and Updating

Actions available depend on your level of permission as a contributor on the registration.

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

Click Pop-Up Box

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

Follow Prompts

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

You can now work through your changes in the document.

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

Press submit changes

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

• All ‘Admin’ contributors can approve the update
• The Moderator will review the update and provide data, if part of the update.

Steps to Update Your Preregistration

Additional details can be found in these OSF guides:

• Guide to Preregistration on the Global Flourishing Study Registry Waves 1 & 2
• Introduction to Updating (Registrations)
• Starting an Update (Registrations)
• Entering Updates (Registrations)
• Submitting Updates for Approval (Registrations)
• Approving/Rejecting Submitted Updates (Registrations)

Questions?

Contact us at globalflourishing@cos.io