Thread: Parents needed for 15-min online risk perception study – WIN UP TO £50 CASH!

I am an MSc student looking for parents to take part in my brief (10-15min) online study, which explores how people make risk-based decisions. The study asks you to indicate whether you would vaccinate against a deadly flu strain in several fictional scenarios. Participants must be aged 18 or over, and have at least one child and one living parent.

All UK-based participants who complete the study will be entered into a prize draw to win £25 CASH!

Click on the following link to begin the study:
http://www.tinyurl.com/UCLVaccinationStudy

You can also earn a separate £25 by forwarding details of this study to others (including your partner)! Everyone that takes part in the study is asked to give the email address of the person who told them about the study. This way, I can identify who has recruited most people and give that person £25.

Many thanks,
Mei Yee Tang (MSc Health Psychology student)
University College London

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The small print:
This study has been approved by the UCL Research Ethics Committee (ref 3754/001). All information obtained from you will be treated as strictly confidential. All email addresses will be deleted once the prize winners have been contacted. You are free to withdraw at any time, even after the completion of the study, by contacting me at m.tang.11@ucl.ac.uk.Due to costly bank transfer charges, cash prizes can only be awarded to UK-based participants.

Sorry, but what is a deadly flu strain? What sort of infection/mortality rate?

I looked at it but it's not really a risk study, it's a study about attitudes toward vaccines. It's also fairly unrealistic and I couldn't quite forget what I know to just answer it as a simple risk taking study. The flu/vaccines don't work in the way that the study suggests so it's hard to answer realistically.

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Done. The question about being more/less likely to die than others of the same age and health didn't specify whether it was comparing the non-vaccinated person against other non-vaccinated people or non-vaccinated against vaccinated.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our study. The study is now complete and a summary of the findings is now available. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the summary, please let me know by emailing me at m.tang.11@ucl.ac.uk.

Kind regards,
Mei