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.
| PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male or Female |
| Age | 13 — 17 |
| Other criteria |
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| Participant benefits |
$50 Gift Card of your choice for Apple iTunes/App Store or Coles Myer. |
| Participants required until |
Ongoing |
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 |
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| Participant benefits |
Participants will be riembursed for their time. |
| Participants required until |
To be advised. |
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.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 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.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 |
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).
| 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 |
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.
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.
| 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.
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