Participants are needed for a menopausal study.

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Eun-Ok Im, MPH, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin and her

colleagues are conducting an Internet study on menopausal symptom experience

among diverse ethnic groups of middle-aged women. In the study, Internet survey

and online forums using a Web site (home-page) will be conducted to get

information on women’s symptom experience during the menopausal transition.

You are being asked to participate in this study if you are a middle aged

woman aged 40 to 60 years who can read and write English and who are a White,

Hispanic, African-American, or Asian.

Data will be collected from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2008. Methods for the

data collection include an Internet survey among 500 middle aged women in the

U.S. on the Internet and online forum discussions among four ethnically

different online forum groups (30 members per group at the beginning).

Your involvement will be: (a) about 30 minutes are usually needed to complete

the Internet survey questionnaire; and ( online forums will be conducted for 6

months (6 months for 7 discussion topics and additional topics that the

participants may add) if you agree to participate in the additional online forum

discussions. Your participation is asynchronous (participants can visit the

online forum site and read and post messages at their convenience).

Reimbursement for participation will be made by providing a Target gift

certificate of 10 dollars per Internet survey participant and a Target gift

certificate of 50 dollars per online forum participant. To get reimbursed for

the online forums, at least two messages per topic should be posted. For more

information, please visit at our Web-site (http://moms.nur.utexas.edu/MOMS/)

and/or contact us.

Contact Information:

Dr. Eun-Ok Im

Associate Professor

School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin

1700 Red River, Austin, TX, 78701

Phone: (512) 475-6352

E-mail: eim@...

Project Website: http://moms.nur.utexas.edu/MOMS/

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