Females aged between 18 and 26 years needed for important Health Psychology Research

shinnybob

Hi,

I am a MSc Health Psychology student of NUI Galway conducting research into "Understanding Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine" in a female university population aged between 18 and 26 years of age from across the country. HPV causes 80% of cervical cancers and genital warts so understanding the factors that influence vaccination against this preventable infection are very important from a health prevention and promotion perspective.

The study involves participation in an online questionnaire, a short web-based intervention and a second short online questionnaire. I am also interested in assessing attitudes at a one-month follow-up through a third and final online questionnaire.

If you are a female university student between the ages of 18 and 26 interested in advancing psychological theories and research, I would be very grateful if you would participate in this very important study.

In order to track participants throughout the different stages of the study I request that you provide an e-mail address at the beginning of every questionnaire. This is also for the purpose of the one month follow-up, after which time the e-mail address will not be retained but your data will be assigned a unique i.d number. All information will be kept confidential and e-mail addresses will not be matched with responses.

If having read the above information thoroughly and you are happy to proceed, the link for the study is:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/psy/sub/sl_survey.php

I have run the above by the moderator and they are happy for me to proceed with uploading the post.

Many thanks,

Shinnybob

D-Generate

shinnybob wrote: »

Hi,

I am a MSc Health Psychology student of NUI Galway conducting research into "Understanding Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine" in a female university population aged between 18 and 26 years of age from across the country. HPV causes 80% of cervical cancers and genital warts so understanding the factors that influence vaccination against this preventable infection are very important from a health prevention and promotion perspective.

The study involves participation in an online questionnaire, a short web-based intervention and a second short online questionnaire. I am also interested in assessing attitudes at a one-month follow-up through a third and final online questionnaire.

If you are a female university student between the ages of 18 and 26 interested in advancing psychological theories and research, I would be very grateful if you would participate in this very important study.

In order to track participants throughout the different stages of the study I request that you give your date of birth (DOB) that will serve as a unique identity number and also an e-mail address for the purpose of the one-month follow-up. All information will be kept confidential and DOB and e-mail addresses will not be matched with responses. E-mail addresses will be discarded after the one-month follow-up. I have attached an information sheet with some important additional information for those interested parties. I would encourage you to read this fully so you understand what is being asked of you.

If after this you are happy to proceed, the link for the study is

http://www.nuigalway.ie/psy/sub/sl_survey.php

I have run the above by the moderator and they are happy for me to proceed with uploading the post.

Many thanks,

Shinnybob

That link is incorrect for the survey. The hyperlink directs to an Outlook Live email inbox. When I copy and paste it in it works though.

Thoie

shinnybob wrote: »

In order to track participants throughout the different stages of the study I request that you give your date of birth (DOB) that will serve as a unique identity number and also an e-mail address for the purpose of the one-month follow-up.

You're going to run into problems if you're using DOB as a unique ID - particularly when you've limited things to a certain age group. All it takes is two people in the survey to be born 1/1/85 and your IDs are messed up.

shinnybob

Hi D-generate,

Thanks for that, I don't know why that occured but I did some editing and the link appears to be working now.

Best,

Shinnybob

shinnybob

Hi everyone,

I have since had to make some changes to my study but I have not the authority to edit my original post and so I am waiting on the moderator to confirm if they have approved the changes so watch this space!

In light of feedback from users and in discussion with my research supervisors, I have decided to discard asking for date of birth and instead I am asking solely for email addresses in order to track participants across my study.

For those of you who have already kindly participated in my research, I appreciate you doing so and I want to assure you your responses are still viable despite this small change.

I would be so very grateful if interested parties would continue to participate in this important research.

Many thanks,

Shinnybob

shinnybob

Just wanted to drop a line of thanks to everyone who has participated in the study to date, it is much appreciated:)!

I hope to complete data collection by Monday 10th May so if anyone else is interested in completing the study by then, I would welcome you to do so!

Many thanks,

Shinnybob!