Participate in research studies

The aim of this research is to survey people living with endometriosis and ask questions about their body image, general wellbeing, and eating disorder symptoms.

This project is supported by Flinders University, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. If you have endometriosis, are living in Australia, and over the age of 18, you are eligible to participate.

To volunteer and complete a short questionnaire (15 minutes), please click on the link to read the participation information sheet and provide consent 

Contact to participate in this study:

Staff from Flinders University’s College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences are undertaking a research project to better understand motivations for (and against) learning a language. This research project will inform future approaches to languages promotion, degree structure and curriculum development.

This study has been approved by the Flinders University Human Research Ethics Committee (Approval 5293).

Contact to participate in this study:

To join waiting list for a 1hr focus group during Week 7: 

This research aims to create a tool for consumers to guide decisions about choosing individual smartphone apps for the self-management of their low back pain. Participation could inform practice that may improve outcomes for low back pain sufferers. This study will use a co-design method, with groups of health professionals and consumers, to encourage discussion via online workshops to offer feedback and guide the final draft of the app assessment tool.

The study will be undertaken in 4 online workshops over 4 weeks (ranging in duration from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours each). To complete the study process, participants are required to respond across all four workshops.  

If you would like to register your interest, please click on the link below to access further information and the consent form.

Contact to participate in this study:

Flinders University researchers are looking to assess sleep behaviours in sport. To do this, they are looking for adult athletes of any level, from amateur to elite/professional, who currently compete or have recently retired from competition (<20 years ago).

If you meet these criteria, you may be interested in having your sleep monitored for a two-week period using nearable and wearable devices.

This research will help to guide future treatment and education about disordered sleep during and after sport.

Contact to participate in this study:

Many people living with Parkinson's disease experience changes in mood and motivation. These changes are also common in older adults.

It is unclear how common these changes are, and how best to identify them.

To help answer these questions, we are looking for:

1. People with Parkinson's disease and a support person

2. People without a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (age 50+ years)

Study participation will involve completing a set of online surveys about your experience of changes in mood and motivation, and your general health and background.

The study will take 30-40 minutes.

Contact to participate in this study:

Researchers from Flinders University are looking for female cancer survivors 18 years and over to participate in a study trialing the impact of a 15-minute single-session writing intervention on body image and overall wellbeing.

There are three aspects to the study, which total 30-40 minutes of your time.

Participation involves:
1. Signing up online via the Qualtrics link, followed by completion of a short questionnaire, and 15-minute writing task,
2. Completion of a very brief post-writing questionnaire, and
3. Completion of a 1-week follow-up questionnaire.

It is recommended that a laptop or PC device are used to complete this study.

Contact to participate in this study:

We are conducting a study that aims to evaluate cognitive function changes from exercise training.

Those interested should first email the contact below. They will then be sent an information sheet detailing the study further, along with a RedCAP survey link to determine their eligibility if they'd like to take part. 

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Tinnitus is a hearing condition referring to the perception of sound without an external source. Often referred to as “ringing in the ears”, the condition is common, affecting approximately 25% of Australian adults with significant impact on quality of life reported in the literature.

There is emerging evidence that tinnitus may be associated with modifiable lifestyle factors including diet. This project aims to determine the dietary intake of people with tinnitus to allow comparisons with dietary recommendations and examine potential links with tinnitus severity. The other aim is to determine the needs of people with tinnitus regarding education and support to improve lifestyle factors found to be linked with the condition.

Contact to participate in this study:

This project will trial non-invasive brain stimulation as a novel treatment for tinnitus and investigate the neural networks disrupted by tinnitus.

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This project will investigate the effectiveness of a brief online writing exercise on general wellbeing among mothers of young children. Various writing exercises have been shown to benefit wellbeing in some populations, and we wish to test the impact of writing about functionality.

Participants in this study must be aged 18 years and over, and be the mother of a child aged 0-10 years old. This project forms the basis of an Honours project, from which a thesis will be published. It is supported by the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University.

Contact to participate in this study:

iSupport for Dementia, is an online education program for informal carers (family, friends, and neighbours) originally developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Participants will be divided into intervention group and control group.

Intervention group will receive:

1) a program facilitator who will assist informal carers to navigate,

2) access and utilise dementia care services and

3) facilitate online care support group activities.

We estimate that the total time commitment involved in participating in the trial would be 21 hours over 12 months.

Control group will receive usual care. 

Contact to participate in this study:

The aim of this study is to investigate Australian Physiotherapists’ attitudes, awareness, and use of frailty screening tools when working with older adults. As front-line health practitioners, physiotherapists play an important role in this screening practice. By sharing your experiences and perspectives it will help improve our understanding of frailty screening and physiotherapy in Australia.

You are invited to complete a short anonymous online questionnaire via Qualtrics that will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Participation is voluntary and you are free to cease completing the questionnaire at any time without effect or consequences by closing the browser. All responses are anonymous and you cannot be identified.

Further information and contact

Participants will complete several cognitive tasks on the computer and fill in questionnaires about their beverage intake. The computer tasks will involve making decisions about spatial targets and judgements about drink pictures. The questionnaires and tasks will take around 45 mins. Following the session, you will be asked to complete short online surveys about your beverage intake each day for a seven-day period. The study as a whole is estimated to take a total time commitment of 60 minutes.  By participating in the study, you may also gain additional insight into psychological research.

Further information and contact

Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health is seeking healthy people with OSA (men and women) aged 18-67 years to take part in overnight research studies to observe the effectiveness of a potential new drug treatment

Further information and contact

Researchers from Flinders and Curtin University, funded by the Australian Research Council and in partnership with ECH, the Office for Ageing Well and the City of Onkaparinga, are trialling a new program for adults aged 65 and over aimed at increasing their sense of wellbeing.

What does it involve?
If you would like to take part the research will involve a few interviews over a three-month period. This will either be over the phone or via online video conferencing (depending on your preference). In the first phase you will be asked to complete a questionnaire to record details of your current levels of wellbeing, engagement and aspects of your lifestyle.

Following the first questionnaire you will be invited to join in weekly phone conversations ranging from 15 minutes to an hour with a trained coach who will give you some activities to complete. The activities will be designed to improve meaningful engagement with day-to-day life or will focus on the ways you think about and evaluate aspects of your life. You will be asked to keep a short daily diary detailing the activities.

Over the course of the research, you will repeat the initial questionnaire again to see if there has been any change over time.  We expect involvement in the research will take around 10-12 hours of time over a period of around 3 months. 

Why get involved?
This research may help you to increase your sense of purpose and wellbeing from your day-to-day life. By getting involved you will help the researchers to evaluate whether the programs are effective

Further information and contact

We are testing the impact of brief online writing exercises about functionality, which may improve wellbeing.

You will be given one of two 15-minute writing exercises to complete. Before and after, you will complete a few questionnaires. One week later, you’ll be asked to complete a short follow-up questionnaire.

No more than 45 mins of your time would be needed in total.

Further information and contact

Chronic insomnia is prevalent in the population and is indicated by trouble falling asleep, staying asleep and/or waking too early and not being able to get back to sleep, in addition to daytime impairment. Individuals who engage in higher levels of physical activity have better sleep health, and protective factors linked to improved sleep such as better mental well-being, more favourable heart function, and higher level of fitness.

Although positive, a commonly cited barrier to participation in physical activity is a lack of time. A growing body of evidence suggests that accumulating exercise in shorter bouts performed at a higher intensity interspersed throughout the day, termed ‘exercise snacking’ may offer similar, or superior benefits to currently established recommendations of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week, with a significantly reduced time burden. This might offer a novel strategy to accumulate physical activity, where prolonged bouts of physical activity may be off-putting, or counterproductive (i.e., increasing fatigue).

This pilot project will investigate the acceptability and feasibility of a four-week ‘exercise snacking’ intervention on sleep health, mental well-being, heart function and fitness in physically inactive adults who report subclinical insomnia.

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Central arterial stiffness (CAS) elevates risk of developing hypertension and subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is also evidence to suggest that metabolic syndrome (MetS) may exacerbate CAS. Alarmingly, MetS and CAS are independent risk factors of heart attack and stroke. Exercise-induced increase in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) has long been established as an effective antidote against MetS and CAS, with its effect enhanced by higher exercise intensities.

A more feasible version of interval training known as reduced exertion high-intensity interval training (REHIT), with limited sprint durations and repetitions (2 x 20 s sprints), has received much attention due to its health benefits yet time-efficient nature.

Reports also show that BFR combined with lower exercise intensities can have favorable cardiometabolic adaptations. The aim of this study is to investigate the short- and long-term effects of REHIT compared to BFR moderate-intensity exercise on CAS, MetS severity, and other CVD risk factors in adults with MetS.

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Volunteers are needed for an online survey (and an optional online focus group) to explore the factors that influence girls' recess and lunchtime activity choices in their first year of secondary school. 

To be eligible to participate in this study, individuals:

• need to identify as a girl, and;
• be in your first year of secondary school in South Australia in 2022, and;
• You will need your parent/guardian's permission before participating.

First-year secondary schooling in 2022 may mean that you are in either year 7 or 8, depending on your last year of primary school in 2021 (either year 6 or 7). If you were in year 7 in 2021 as part of a secondary school, you are not eligible to participate as you are in your second year of secondary school in 2022

Further information and contact

Participation involves:

• 60–80 minute session at Flinders University (College of Nursing and Health Sciences).
• Reading stories on a computer while the movements of your eyes are monitored by a non-invasive eye tracker.

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If you are a young person on the autism spectrum between 18 and 24 who is either a tertiary student in South Australia, employed, underemployed or not currently employed, we are keen to hear from you. 

Help us better understand how your essential social and communication skills for work and tertiary education were supported during transition planning in senior secondary school. 

If you are interested and willing to participate in a 60-minute phone, online or in person interview, please contact Leanne.

Further information and contact

The purpose of this study is to investigate Flinders University students’ communication skills and communication needs. This study is being carried out by the Academic and Professional Communications team in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the university, under the supervision of the Principal Investigator, Dr Werner Botha.

Further information and contact

Participants who have directly or indirectly experienced a negative event will be asked to attend a meeting (online or in person) where they will complete an initial survey. They will then be asked to complete four brief surveys each day for a 10-day period reflecting on their thoughts about this event. After this they will be asked to complete one final survey about their thoughts and feelings when considering their negative event.

Further information and contact

In this two-part study you must complete both parts successfully within 24 hours to receive your payments.

For Part 1, you will study 3 magazine-style articles. The next morning you will receive a code for a $5 Woolworths Gift Card for completing Part 1. If you are eligible, you will also receive a link to Part 2. You must complete Part 2 within 24 hours of Part 1. For Part 2, you will study 3 more articles and then your memory for all 6 articles will be tested using multiple-choice questions.

Note, only people with a Flinders University login can participate in this survey.

The study will involve thinking about a negative event in your life.

We strongly suggest that if you believe you may be overly distressed by thinking about a negative event that you DO NOT participate in this experiment.

What happens during the study?

Participants can choose to either do a face-to-face or an online experiment. Participants will be asked to pay attention to any thoughts about their negative autobiographical event and complete a series of relevant questionnaires and a daily diary for a one-week period.

How long will it take?

Approximately 2 hours over the course of a week.

Register your interest

Register your interest via the email below and you will be contacted with more information about the study.

Find out more about our current PTSD treatment trials.

The study will involve thinking about a negative event in your life.

We strongly suggest that if you believe you may be overly distressed by thinking about a negative event that you DO NOT participate in this experiment.

What happens during the study?

Participants will be asked to do a face-to-face experiment. In the experiment, participants will be asked to pay attention to any thoughts about their negative autobiographical event and complete a series of relevant questionnaires, thought monitoring and a computer task. 

How long will it take?

The face-to-face experiment will take an hour to complete.

Register your interest

Register your interest via the email below and you will be contacted with more information about the study.

Find out more about our current PTSD treatment trials.

Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health researchers are seeking individuals to participate in new home-based treatment studies for insomnia.

Flinders University is looking for people who have had an abortion in the last 12 months to share their experiences of accessing health services. Understanding experiences of talking to health professionals about contraception and unwanted pregnancy can help us to improve the way people are supported to decide for themselves if and when to have children. This study is also wanting to hear how the COVID-19 pandemic might have affected how people access contraception and abortion services.

You can participate if:

• you have had an abortion in South Australia in the last 12 months
• you are currently over 18 years old.

By taking part in this study, you will be asked to complete:
A short 5-10 minute online questionnaire.

On completion of the questionnaire you will have the option of volunteering to take part in a 40-60 minute telephone or Zoom interview.

For further information and contact

For further information about this project, including aims and benefits of the project, data storage and remuneration, please see the Participant Information Sheet at the web link below.

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety helped to shine a light on how important it is to measure food service satisfaction in residential aged care homes. Under the new Aged Care Standards, residential aged care homes are now expected to show evidence that the consumer experience is being sought and understood. Food service satisfaction questionnaires are an important way for residents to provide feedback to the home regarding their experience with the meals and dining experience.

For various reasons (e.g. cognitive impairment) some residents may be unable or unwilling to provide feedback to the aged care home. In this situation, having a proxy (such as a family member) who can act on their behalf is essential. Additionally, family members are often responsible for choosing the aged care home and liaising with the site manager and catering staff to convey the food preferences of the resident.

We are interested in investigating family satisfaction with the food provided in aged care homes.

You can participate if:

• You are over the age of 18, and
• Have a family member permanently living in an aged care home.

Participation will involve a short interview (either in person or online) to discuss your responses to the questionnaire. Interviews are expected to take no more than 45-60 minutes.