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NEEDED: Kind souls to help with psychology research

I'm running a research project on people's attitudes to prenatal genetic testing, which needs 400 participants. At some point, the study must have seemed like a good idea...but, now I'm at the data collection stage, 400 is NOT a happy number!

Would you be able to help?

Do you know of a mailing list/forum where I could advertise for participants?
Or could you, or someone you know, spare ten minutes to complete the online questionnaire?*

Let me know, and I'll send you more information/the link to the survey.

Hopefully, the research will help to improve the genetic counselling offered to expectant parents.

If you could help in any way, I'd be hugely grateful!

Thank you

*Anyone who is aged 20-34, lives in the UK and speaks fluent English is eligible to participate.

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Permalink Reply by Jo on February 1, 2015 at 12:09

Good point -- now I come to think about my reasons for not posting it, they're all a bit daft!

The survey can be found at:
https://derby.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bswhgegQFpEJUG1

Needless to say, if anyone knows of any 20-34 year olds who might be interested in participating (especially young dads), please feel free to forward link...

...although I feel a bit presumptuous saying that. To be honest, it's got to the point where I'm just grateful to you for reading this post, let alone anything else (participant recruitment can be a very dispiriting process )!

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Permalink Reply by Cat on February 2, 2015 at 11:11

Completed :) I found that when I was trying to find participants I got the best results from asking friends/friends-of-friends and posting links on relevant social media/forum sites, with the explanation ready that it is anonymous and not compulsory. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Jo on February 3, 2015 at 10:49

Cheers It sounds like you can sympathise with the trials of participant recruitment -- and, therefore, you probably have some idea how much I appreciate your help I've strong-armed all my family and friends into taking the questionnaire. Now I've only got another 300 people to find. Oh dear...