Annemarie Carroll MS, CRC
Kent State University
Greetings!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Counseling Psychology and Rehabilitation Psychology
at Kent State University. I am looking for people to participate in my
dissertation research on quality of life after spinal cord injury.
Specifically, I would like to learn more about how the amount of time that has
passed since the injury and the way that people cope with their injuries,
impacts their quality of life. Hopefully, the results of this study will
provide health care professionals with information about how to assist
individuals with SCI to improve their quality of life, both during and long
after rehab. By recruiting participants over the internet, I hope to obtain
information from a wide range of people with SCI, including people who are
relatively recently injured, those who have been injured for a longer period
of time, and everyone in between.
I am looking for people to participate in my study who:
1. Have had a traumatic spinal cord injury that resulted in paralysis
2. Are at least 18 years old
3. Currently reside in the United States
In order to make my study accessible to the most people, it is available in
four formats. If you are interested in participating, please follow the
instructions below for the format of your choice.
1. On-line internet version: To complete the questionnaire on-line, please
click on the following hyperlink to be connected to my data collection web
page. (Please note that if the link has wrapped onto two separate lines, it
will not work. Instead copy and paste the URL into your browser, making sure
that the entire URL remains on one line/does not wrap.)
<A HREF="http://or.psychology.dal.ca/cgi-
bin/cgiwrap/~wcs/SAprojects/annemarie/SCI_study.pl">data collection site</A>
http://or.psychology.dal.ca/cgi-
bin/cgiwrap/~wcs/SAprojects/annemarie/SCI_study.pl
2. E-mail version: To request an email version, email me at
acscistudy(AT)aol.com.
3. Print version by regular mail: To request a print version of the
questionnaire, email me at acscistudy(AT)aol.com. Be sure to include your name
and mailing address.
4. Telephone interview: To arrange an appointment to complete the materials by
telephone, email me at acscistudy(AT)aol.com
If you meet the qualifications described above, I hope you will decide to
participate in my study. Since everyone's experience is different, only you
can provide information about your quality of life. Please feel free to share
this information with anyone you think may be interested in participating.
Of course all information obtained from the questionnaire will be kept
confidential. In addition, if you choose to complete the on-line version of
the questionnaire, you will be doing so anonymously and your name will not be
known. This project has been approved by Kent State University’s rules for
research.
If you have any questions about this study please contact me at
acscistudy(AT)aol.com. Thanks in advance for considering participation in my
project.
Annemarie Carroll, MS, CRC
Kent State University