Interviewers are responsible for:
- Traveling frequently to selected locations to recruit study participants
- Making in-person and phone contact to locate respondents aged 58-90 to discuss the study, answer questions, and obtain participation
- Making in-person and phone contact with selected respondents to avert and convert refusals to participate
- Collecting confidential information and administering standardized questionnaires via phone and in-person lasting up to 150 minutes per interview
- Independently managing administrative duties, including participating in conference calls and completing online trainings
- Transmitting data as scheduled
- Administering cognitive assessments (e.g., animal naming test, word recall, and counting backwards)
- Administering physical function testing using a dynamometer [hand-held device]
- Providing verbal instructions to respondents for self-collection of whole dried blood spots using a small device and assisting when needed. Linked here is an informational video regarding this process: Dried Blood Collection — Tasso, Inc.
- Providing verbal instructions to respondents for self-collection of saliva using an Oragene Saliva Kit and assisting when needed
- Ensuring proper storage, handling, packaging, and shipping of bio-specimens (TASSO device and Oragene tube) according to project protocols
- Managing and storing paper documents
- Clearly and concisely documenting all efforts to contact and interview respondents at the end of each workday
- Maintaining regular access to a reliable wireless internet connection in your home for project work
- Meeting weekly with supervisor via Zoom
- Assuming full and legal responsibility for use and care of project-issued equipment
- Managing, securing, and safeguarding any participant incentives, issued equipment, or project materials against damage loss, or theft
- Assuming responsibility for and carefully tracking all participant incentives
- Submitting timely and accurate Time & Expense reports
- Attend virtually scheduled meetings with other members of the project team