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My name is Li-Chen Lin, a doctoral student at the University of Texas
at Austin, who is currently working with Dr. Eun-Ok Im on an online
study of menopausal symptom experience among diverse ethnic groups of
middle-aged women. For this study, we plan to recruit research
participants using the Internet.
Please see the below for the content of the announcement.
Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful consideration of the
study.
Sincerely,
Li-Chen Lin, RN, MSN
Doctoral Student
School of Nursing
University of Texas at Austin
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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 June 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
(hpp://moms.nur.utexas.edu/) and/or contact us.
Contact Information:
Dr. Eun-Ok Im
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin
1700 Red River, Austin, TX, 78701
Phone: (512) 475-6352
E-mail: e...@mail.nur.utexas.edu
Project Website: hpp://moms.nur.utexas.edu/
Rima E. Laibow MD
Good luck,
Dr. Laibow