Participate for a chance to win $100 – USF Research on Patient Satisfaction

[Guest guest]

Have you ever joined a weight loss treatment or visited a weight

loss

clinic where the counselor is a dietitian or a physician (or any

other

health professional)? Have you ever felt satisfied or dissatisfied

with the behaviors of the practitioners counseling you for weight

loss?

Here is your chance to share with us your opinions and experiences

with your practitioners' behaviors during your weight-loss

treatment.

The information you will provide in this survey will be used for the

improvement of weight loss clinics. Any false information will

affect

the treatment of hundreds of people. For that reason, please

participate only if you've had the experience we're asking about.

This survey will take about 15 minutes of your time and is anonymous.

As a thank you for your participation, you will enter a raffle with

the chance of winning $100.

You will be able to participate if you are between the ages of 20

and

65, and you think you are overweight with no morbid health

conditions

or diagnosed eating disorders.

If you wish to participate, please log on to

http://dons.usfca.edu/swabdelnour/patients.htm You will find on that

webpage a link to access an Information Sheet, for more information

about this research; the Research Subject's Bill of Rights; and a

link

to the questionnaire Dietetics Professionals' Practices–Patients,

which you will complete.

Please complete the questionnaire by May 15, 2005.

Please address any concerns regarding the study or the questionnaire

to the researcher.

Thank you for being a contributor to change

Sincerely,

Souha Abdelnour,

School of Education

Department of Organization and Leadership

University of San Francisco

Tel: 415 379 6605

E-mail: swabdelnour@...

Address: 533 3rd Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118