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BethM
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Posted 8/1/2005 4:15 AM (GMT -8)
Dear HealingWell members   My name is Beth Mitchell, I am a master's student in Health Psychology at the University of Derby; I am currently conducting a piece of research exploring online heart disease support groups looking into social support and other positive and negative aspects of group membership. I am partially interested in why individuals choose to become members and what their experiences of the group are, and have developed a questionnaire with this in mind; Peter Waite (admin) has been kind enough to give me permission to post a link. I would be extremely grateful if anyone with a little free time would go to the following page and complete the questionnaire.       http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/system /question/display/index.php?id =17 The research has been cleared by an internal ethics board and the questionnaire has also been approved by the university.   Thank you for your time   Beth
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heartangel
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Posted 8/1/2005 6:03 AM (GMT -8)
Beth

thanks for the link I will look into it later on.

Heidi

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Kathlyn1950
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Posted 8/1/2005 8:35 AM (GMT -8)
Hello, Beth. Thank you for providing this opportunity for us. I am in the mental health field and know the value of support groups. They can be extremely helpuful. At worst, they can be quite toxic. In my experience, however, they are mostly helpful. I'll go check out the link and complete the questionnaire. Kathy
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Kathlyn1950
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Posted 8/1/2005 8:41 AM (GMT -8)
Beth, I went to do the questionnaire and have a question about question #8. Questoins # 5, 6, and 7 refer to family or friends' heart problems. When the question. asks about "the treatment plan" is it still referring to family and friends, or our own?
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BethM
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Posted 8/1/2005 12:41 PM (GMT -8)
Hi Kathlyn, I’M sorry that the question is not clear, as the aim of the questionnaire is to get as full an understanding of your experiences as possible, any way you wish to answer the question or any of the questions is fine, either with reference to your friends/ family, yourself or both   I would just like to thank you and the others that have already posted and if anyone has any other questions please ask. .
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Kathlyn1950
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Posted 8/1/2005 4:12 PM (GMT -8)
Thank you, Beth. I'll go finish up the questionnaire now. I'm glad that you are doing this study and look forward to finding out what your results are when you can publish them!
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Teri16
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Posted 8/1/2005 7:36 PM (GMT -8)
Hi Beth! 

 

I just finished the questionaire - very interesting!

 

Best Wishes to You, Teri tongue

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jan-BC
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Posted 8/2/2005 3:46 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, Beth, I tried yesterday to complete your questionnaire but the site refused to accept my data....Maybe it is because I am from a Canadian provider. It eventually asked for my student number. Am I doing something wrong?

Jan

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Teri16
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Posted 8/2/2005 10:58 AM (GMT -8)
Hi Jan and Welcome Back to HealingWell!! yeah

It's nice to see you again and I hope you are doing well!

 

Hugs, Teri tongue

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Teri16
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Posted 8/2/2005 11:03 AM (GMT -8)
Re the questionnaire - I hope Beth can answer you question?! yeah
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BethM
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Posted 8/2/2005 11:56 AM (GMT -8)
Hi jan-BC thank you for taking the time to do the questionnaire, especially as it is not working properly, unfortunately I don’t understand why it is not working for you maybe like you said its because you have Canadian provider …..…….The page asking for a student number and password is for me to log in and read your answers. Has anyone else had the same problems? All I can suggest is that if you try cutting and pasting the link instead of clicking on it, you should go to the correct page (I hope) If this still does not work for you, could you please describe the page that the link takes you to so that I might have a better understanding of the problem?

Thank you again to everyone that has already completed the questionnaire! I am submitting my thesis in October and will let you all no what I have found then if not before.
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Teri16
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Posted 8/2/2005 1:25 PM (GMT -8)
Thanks Beth! 

 

I did not have any problems reaching the correct site myself, but perhaps as has been mentioned, that there is a glitch coming from the server?  Anyone?

 

Hugs, Teri tongue

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heartangel
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Posted 8/3/2005 5:10 AM (GMT -8)

Beth also completed it no problems at all got right on and no problems.

Welcome back Jan Bc

Heidi

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Kathlyn1950
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Posted 8/3/2005 10:22 PM (GMT -8)
I didn't have any problems either, Beth. Got right in and was able to answer the questions. You created a good instrument!
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BethM
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Posted 8/4/2005 10:48 AM (GMT -8)
Hi Jan-BC I was just wondering if you have had a chance to see if you can access the questionnaire yet?

I’m really glad that everyone else has had no problems, unfortunately I can not take credit as it was the university computer guy that figured out how to post the questionnaire online.

The more I am learning the more I think you are all amazing!


Beth
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heartangel
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Posted 8/4/2005 7:14 PM (GMT -8)

thanks beth glad we cuold help you out.

Heidi

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Teri16
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Posted 8/28/2005 3:38 PM (GMT -8)
 

Bumping this back up! yeah

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