Participate in research studies

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.

Researchers from Flinders University are currently looking at how people eligible for aged care packages choose how they spend their care package money. This research has been approved by the Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics.

They would like to speak with 30 people who access these packages about the way they choose to buy their services. The purpose of the research is to help organisations that provide these packages to make services more available for consumers.

They would like to speak with you one on one. The interview would be take about 45 minutes and it would be held in a place that is most suitable for you. This could be, for example, at your home. It would be entirely voluntary for you to participate.

If you choose to participate you can withdraw at any time without any consequences. Also, your decision will not affect the care you receive from our organisation.

If you are interested in learning more about the study and/ or participating, please contact the researchers on phone: 0402334898, or email rahj0001@flinders.edu.au.

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.

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.

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.

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).