Participate in research studies

We are always looking for research study or survey volunteers.

If you would like to participate, please browse through the research studies below.

Most research study volunteers will be reimbursed in some way.

How often do you spend sitting? Comparison between adults with and without Down Syndrome

Participants will be asked to wear a small activity monitor to the front of their thigh continually for seven days. During this time you will also be asked to record the times you go to sleep, and wake up.

You will also be asked to complete a short questionnaire, with questions about demographics, time spent sitting, and the types of activities you are doing.

beer0038@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	18 - 25
Other criteria	Speak and understand English, live in the community in Adelaide, can walk, medically well, sufficient cognition to understand the study information, and do not play an elite sport
Participant benefits	No financial reimbursement offered; however the information gathered will be used for future interventions
Participants required until	30 September 2018

Inclusive sport practices

Discovering the barriers and enablers for the LGBTIQ+ sporting community

This study will investigate the barriers and enablers for the LGBTIQ+ sporting community. The information gained from this study will help us to improve sporting participation and to decrease barriers and address inequities within sporting environments in South Australia.

You will be asked to complete an online questionnaire survey including basic demographic questions (e.g., your age, date of birth, ethnicity) and questions relating to your sporting participation, and experiences with LGBTIQ+ sporting participant. The questionnaire is expected to be no more than 20 to 30 minutes of your time.

After the questionnaire, some participants will also be invited to participate in small focus groups with the researchers at a later date, which will involve some additional open-ended questions. The focus group is expected to take no more than 30 to 45 minutes of your time.

Complete questionnaire

nadia.bevan@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	18+
Other criteria	Any current or ex-sporting participants aged 18 years and older who can read and write in English.
Participant benefits	Your participation in this study and the sharing of your experiences will help us to decrease barriers for LGBTIQ+ sporting participants in South Australia. If participating in the focus group, you will be reimbursed with a $25 gift voucher for your time.
Participants required until	30 August 2018

The effect of patient choice on an online perfectionism intervention

This study will evaluate the effect patient choice has on the effectiveness of an online intervention in improving perfectionism and related psychological outcomes. It will also investigate self-efficacy in relation to improved treatment outcomes.

What will happen during the study?

You will be asked to complete online questionnaires relating to demographics, perfectionism, depression, anxiety, body image, and self-efficacy.

You will be randomly assigned to either complete the online intervention modules in a fixed order, or to choose which modules you wish to complete. The online intervention contains eight modules which you will have four weeks to complete. These modules contain a mixture of text, images, and audio based on a cognitive behavioural treatment protocol for perfectionism. After the four weeks, both groups will be asked to complete the same questionnaires. In total, the study will take approximately 5 hours of your time over a 4-week period.

The research will be conducted in three phases as follows:

1. Initial questionnaires (15 minutes) to be completed online

2. Intervention modules and inter-module exercises (30 minutes per module over 4 weeks) to be completed online

3. Follow-up questionnaires (15 minutes) to be completed online at the end of the 4-week period

kay0083@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	17+
Other criteria	A personal struggle with perfectionism.
Participant benefits	Reimbursed with participation credits (Flinders University First-Year Psychology Students) or a book titled Overcoming Perfectionism following the completion of the follow-up questionnaires.
Participants required until	Ongoing

Young people in sport

This study is part of a broader study investigating the reasons for sporting participation among young people. The information gained from this study will help us to improve sporting participation and to decrease barriers and address inequities within sporting environments in South Australia. In the larger study, adolescent girls and boys aged between 12 and 17 years, parents/caregivers of school-aged children, and teachers/principals will be recruited from public, Catholic and Independent schools, and key stakeholders (e.g. sporting coaches/officials, teachers) will be recruited from the wider community.

You will be asked to complete an online questionnaire including basic demographic questions (e.g., your age, date of birth, ethnicity) and questions relating to your sporting participation, social support and mood. This questionnaire will take no more than 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Following the questionnaire, some participants will also be invited to participate in small focus groups with the researchers, which will involve some additional open-ended questions. If willing to participate in the focus groups, we will ask for your name, email address and/or preferred contact phone number at the end of the questionnaire. The focus group will take place at a later date. The focus group is expected to take no more than 30 to 45 minutes of your time. If invited, you will be provided with further information at a later date.

Take the survey

nadia.bevan@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male, female, unspecified
Age	18 - 25
Other criteria	Participants must be able to understand verbal/written instructions in English in order to be eligible to participate.
Participant benefits	Your participation in this study and the sharing of your experiences will help us to improve young people’s sporting participation and to decrease barriers and address inequities within sporting environments in South Australia.
Participants required until	27 July 2018

Flinders Health Online for Teens (HOT)

A new and online healthy lifestyle program for teens

Are you between 13 to 17 years old?
Are you above a healthy weight (e.g. overweight)?
Do you have access to Wi-Fi at home?
Are you not pregnant, planning pregnancy, or breastfeeding?

If yes, the Nutrition and Dietetics discipline in Flinders University is seeking volunteers like you for early testing of a new program – Health Online for Teens (HOT) – which is designed to improve teenagers’ eating, activity and wellbeing.

Your use and engagement with the program over 14-weeks will be monitored and you will be asked to complete questionnaires as well as wear an activity monitoring device for 7 days at the start and end of the program,

You may also be invited to participate in a one-on-one interview to hear about your experience with the program.

Your parents can have access to a supporting program which lets them know what activities you do each week and provides them with tips on how to support you.

Upon safe return of project equipment in working order you will receive a $50 Gift Card of your choice for Apple iTunes/App Store or Coles Myer in recognition of your contribution to this research project.

Express your interest here

Information sheet for parents

HOT@flinders.edu.au

Information sheet for adolescents

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	13 — 17
Other criteria	Above a healthy weight (overweight or obese) Access to Wi-Fi at home Not pregnant, planning pregnancy, or breastfeeding.
Participant benefits	$50 Gift Card of your choice for Apple iTunes/App Store or Coles Myer.
Participants required until	Ongoing

End-of-life Care in the Emergency Department study

Have you experienced the sudden death of a family member or significant other in a South Australian Emergency Department setting in the last 5 years?

We would like to hear about your experience.

Participants are needed for a study which explores the experiences of family members and significant others when someone they know dies suddenly in an emergency department setting.

Results from this study will help identify the practical and emotional care and support that family members and significant others have received and would like to receive in this situation.

tracey.giles@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male and female
Age	From 18 years old
Other criteria	Was present in an emergency department during the past 5 years when a person they knew died. Able to speak and read English.
Participant benefits	Participants will be provided with a $25 supermarket voucher for their time and participation.
Participants required until	1 October 2018

Study to evaluate an iPhone tool to promote healthier eating and weight loss

Volunteers will attend Flinders University on 3 occasions over 3 months to complete several tasks and questionnaires, and learn to use the iPhone tool.

Participants will also use the iPhone tool at home.

Participants should not:

have a known illness that would affect weight loss
be pregnant or considering pregnancy
have lost weight of 5 kg or more in the last 3 months
have a diagnosed eating disorder
have any food allergies
have any metabolic disorders.

Appointments will be scheduled at mutually convenient times.

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Female
Age	18-65 years old
Other criteria	Be overweight or obese (BMI > 25), but weigh less than 180kg. Have an iPhone (model 4 or newer, with iOS of 8 or higher). Be able to walk up a flight of stairs. Speak English as their first language.
Participant benefits	Participants will be riembursed for their time.
Participants required until	To be advised.

Lifestyle factors and their contribution to symptoms of anxiety

Volunteers needed for an online survey study, which forms part of my Clinical Psychology Masters research at Flinders University.

The survey will take approximately 20 minutes and involves questions about feelings toward ones personal appearance, public safety, work-life balance, job insecurity, housing affordability, threat expectancy (fear of specific things) and anxiety symptoms.

Please contact Bianca Tassone (tass0034@flinders.edu.au) if you have any questions or would like any further information.

Survey link

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or female
Age	From 18 years old
Other criteria	Fluent in English
Participant benefits	All participants who complete the survey with Gumtree, Facebook, or Twitter have the option of going into the draw to win ‘one’ $50 Coles Myer voucher gift card. If you would like to partake in the draw, an email address in a separate link at the bottom of the survey will need to be provided. Survey responses will not be matched with your email, as this will be completed on a separate web page in order to protect your anonymity.
Participants required until	Ongoing

Intensive sleep retraining for chronic insomnia

Do you have insomnia?

Do you have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep?

If so, we invite you to be involved in research to help improve our understanding and treatment of insomnia. All participants with insomnia will be offered an effective treatment program.

This study is being conducted by researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide.

The study firstly involves a telephone interview about your sleep, health and lifestyle. Depending on your answers, you may be asked to record a sleep diary for several weeks and complete weekly questionnaires to assess eligibility for the study.

If you are selected to participate, then you will be invited to undertake an overnight sleep intervention in your home. After treatment, you will be asked to keep a sleep diary for 3 separate weeks and complete several brief questionnaires once a week over 6-week follow-up period.

Email mair0001@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Criteria	Before consenting to participate in this study you will be asked to supply information to discover if you are eligible to take part. If you are considered to be a suitable research participant, you will then be asked to sign a consent form by the research staff.
Participant benefits	N/A
Participants required until	Ongoing

Orally administered anticancer drugs

Using the chemicals in the human body to predict the optimal dose of orally administered anticancer drugs

The Department of Clinical Pharmacology at Flinders is seeking to identify chemicals in the human body that can help predict the optimal dosing of drugs, and is seeking healthy male volunteers.

If you are interested and would like further details please contact Dr Andrew Rowland on 8204 7546 or email andrew.rowland@flinders.edu.au. All correspondence will be treated with the strictest of confidence.

Email andrew.rowland@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male
Age	21-35
Other criteria	Healthy and normal weight. Not currently taking any regular medications, herbal products, supplements etc. Able to refrain from cigarettes and grapefruit juice for two weeks.
Participant benefits	$300 supermarket gift card to compensate for time and travel costs.
Participants required until	March 2019

Traumatic stress

A traumatic stress research study.

The Posttraumatic Stress Research Studies Unit of the School of Psychology is seeking participants for a research study.

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 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 2hrs over the course of a week.

Register your interest via email. You will then be contacted with more information about the study.

More information

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or female
Age	18+
Other criteria	Must be a native English speaker. Must have the use of a smartphone. Must be willing to complete questions relating to past negative events. Must have experienced a negative event in the past three months (events don’t have to be bothering you now, or may not have even bothered you at the time).
Participant benefits	Volunteers will be reimbursed for their time.
Participants required until	Ongoing

Disordered eating

Treatment to improve symptoms of disordered eating

Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED) is offering treatment to improve symptoms of disordered eating, such as binge eating, purging, fasting and preoccupation with weight and shape.

What happens during treatment?

This treatment involves working through a new treatment for eating disorders, Intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBTi), with a trainee therapist at Flinders University.

As part of treatment you will also be asked to complete an interview and questionnaire on five occasions which will take about 90 minutes for each assessment.

You will also be asked if you are willing to consent to this information being used in a research project investigating the impact of this intervention on quality of life.

Who can participate?

If you are over 15 years of age and are experiencing problems with disordered eating you may be eligible to participate.

Email Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	15+
Other criteria	BMI > 17.5 Be willing for the therapist to communicate with your GP. Fluent English
Participant benefits	Other people doing this treatment have reported improvements in their eating disorder and quality of life.
Participants required until	Ongoing

Food cravings

Food and cravings daily diary study

Do you experience food cravings? Are you interested in contributing to research?

We are currently seeking participants for a new field study investigating the psychology of food cravings.

Participants will be asked to complete a food craving diary over a period of 2 weeks. Participants will also be asked to fill out several questionnaires.

Additionally, participants will be required to attend two separate information sessions during the 2-week period. Each information session will be 15-30 minutes, and daily diary completion should take no longer than 15 minutes of your time.

Email schu0338@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Female
Age	18+
Other criteria	Have a craving for food at least once per day. Speak English proficiently. Have a smartphone/tablet and headphones.
Participant benefits	N/A
Participants required until	Ongoing

Computer gaming and adolescence sleep

Investigating computer gaming and sleep during adolescence.

Participating in this School of Psychology study will involve attending the sleep laboratory at Flinders University for 2 nights spaced approximately 1 day. Food and drinks will be provided.

A brief initial phone screening will be conducted to determine your eligibility for the study.

Email lisajoanne.smith@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	15 - 17
Other criteria	A good sleeper. Do not consume excessive caffeine or take recreational drugs. Have not travelled overseas in the past 3 months.
Participant benefits	$50 Westfield voucher
Participants required until	Ongoing

Managing multiple roles in day-to-day life

Management of our identities

We are seeking participants for a study investigating how people manage their multiple roles in day-to-day life.

This project will investigate how individuals experience and cope with situations in which their social identities have conflicting expectations.
Social identities are the groups and roles we identify with in our day-to-day life, they may include being a parent, a worker, an athlete, a student, or other groups and roles.

Due to individuals having many different social identities, there may be times when an individual is unable to adhere to the expectations of both identities at once. A working parent, for example, may be unable to simultaneously prioritise their working and parenting commitments.
We are interested in how conflicts between social identities impact on overall psychological well-being, and if there are management strategies that enable people to cope with conflicts more effectively.

Participation will involve completing an 20-30 minute online survey. You’ll be asked a number of questions, including what your social groups/roles are, how important these social groups are to you, and whether the expectations of these social groups conflict with each other.

You’ll also be asked to rate your emotions (including emotions such as shame, anger, remorse, pride and others). Some questions will ask how you responded in situations when your social groups had conflicting expectations of you (e.g., whether you took time to think about the best way to deal with the situation, whether you tried to avoid the situation, whether you could not stop thinking about the situation).

Complete survey

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	18+
Other criteria	Fluent in English. Live in South Australia.
Participant benefits	N/A
Participants required until	Ongoing

Teenagers – do you worry too much?

Behavioural Activation group treatment program for young people.

The Emotion and Behaviour Lab within the School of Psychology, Flinders University, runs a Behavioural Activation group treatment program for young people with excessive worry.

For more information email youth.worry.flinders@gmail.com or phone 0434 809 354.

Email youth.worry.flinders@gmail.com

Therapy following trauma

Investigating the use of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to treat those who have been traumatised.

The School of Psychology in Flinders University is conducting a research study investigating how a more individualised Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) can be used to treat those who have been traumatised.

Participating in the study will involve attending 12-15 individual therapy sessions with a trained therapist. You will also be asked to complete an interview and questionnaires about your life experiences, beliefs and symptoms before therapy, immediately after and 3-months following therapy.

A brief initial phone screening will be conducted to determine your eligibility for the study.

traumaunit@flinders.edu.au

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED
Gender	Male or Female
Age	18+
Other criteria	Experienced or witnessed a trauma 4 or more weeks ago.
Participant benefits	N/A
Participants required until	Ongoing

About our research studies

All research involving human participants requires ethics approval. These research studies have received approval from a human research ethics committee registered with the NHMRC, most commonly the Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee at Flinders University, or the Southern Adelaide Clinical Human Research Ethics Committee.