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11/12/2008
Eun-Ok
Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas
at Austin and her colleagues are conducting a study to explore ethnic
differences in midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity.
You
are eligible to participate in this study if you are a midlife women
aged 40 to 60 years old who do not have any mobility problems; who can
read and write English; who are online; and whose self-reported ethnic
identity is Hispanic, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African American,
or N-H Asian.
Data will be collected through the Internet from
Feb. 1, 2008 to May 31, 2011. Methods for the data collection include
an Internet survey among 500 midlife women in the U.S. on the Internet
and four ethnic-specific online
forum discussions among about 30 midlife women per ethnic group recruited
among the Internet survey participants.
Your
involvement will consist of the following: (a) about 30 minutes are
usually needed to complete the Internet survey questionnaire; and (b)
the
online forums will be conducted for 6 months, should you agree to
participate in the additional online forum discussion. Your participation is
asynchronous (you can visit the online forum site and read and post messages
at your convenience).
You
will receive a gift certificate of 10 dollars for filling out
theInternet survey, and an additional gift certificate of 50 dollars
for participating in the additional online forum (only those who
participate in the additional online forum for 6 months will be
provided with this additional gift certificate). To get reimbursed for
the online forums, you have to post at least one message per topic. For
more information, please visit at our website (http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu) and/or contact us.
Eun-Ok Im, MPH, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
and her colleagues are conducting an Internet study on menopausal
symptom experience among diverse ethnic groups of middle-aged women.
In the study, Internet survey and online forums using a Web site
(home-page) will be conducted to get information on women’s symptom
experience during the menopausal transition.
You are being
asked to participate in this study if you are a middle aged woman aged
40 to 60 years who can read and write English and who are a White,
Hispanic, African-American, or Asian.
Data will be collected
from July 1, 2005 to August 30, 2008. Methods for the data collection
include an Internet survey among 500 middle aged women in the U.S. on
the Internet and online forum discussions among four ethnically
different online forum groups (30 members per group at the beginning).
Your involvement will be: (a) about 30 minutes are usually needed to
complete the Internet survey questionnaire; and (b) online forums will
be conducted for 6 months (6 months for 7 discussion topics and
additional topics that the participants may add) if you agree to
participate in the additional online forum discussions. Your
participation is asynchronous (participants can visit the online forum
site and read and post messages at their convenience).
Reimbursement for participation will be made by providing a Target gift
certificate of 10 dollars per Internet survey participant and a Target gift
certificate of 50 dollars per online forum participant. To get reimbursed for
the online forums, at least two messages per topic should be posted. For more information, please visit at our Web-site (http://moms.nur.utexas.edu/
Contact Information:
Ken-Li Chang
Research Assistant
School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701
E-mail: kchang@mail.utexas.edu
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, Professor
School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin
1700 Red River, Austin, TX, 78701
Phone: (512) 475-6352
website: http://buda.nur.utexas.edu/
E-mail
Project Website: http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu
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