Exploring the attitudes of student and qualified adult nurses about obesity

Information sheet

My name is Elisabeth Goad, I am a Trainee Clinical Psychologist studying at the University of Surrey. If you are an student or qualified adult nurse currently practicing in the UK, I would like to invite you to take part in my research project; details of which are given below.

The current literature suggests that there is obesity related bias in general society but also of student and qualified adult nurses. Such bias may result in negative consequences such as an increase in unhealthy eating behaviours and reduced engagement with healthcare. This study will examine attitudes and beliefs of healthcare staff about obesity as well as consider factors that might influence these attitudes such as self esteem, personal demographic factors, stress and burnout.

Participation is completely voluntary and if you do decide to take part you have the right to withdraw your participation at any stage; and to withdraw your data until data is analysed (31st May 2016) without giving reason.

If you decide to take part in the study after reading this information sheet you can proceed to the consent form before continuing on to complete a series of short questionnaires which should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete. The unique participant identifier on the consent form will enable us link your consent form to your questionnaire if required without using your name and thus maintaining anonymity. If you wish to withdraw your data from the study at a later date, we will need your participant identifier to do so. All the information you provide will be kept confidentially and made anonymous prior to being entered into a database for analysis. Data will be kept for a minimum of 10 years after the study is complete inline with university research policy. Group data may be published in an academic journal, but no details which could be used to identify individual participants will be published. Your anonymised data may also be used for future studies that have received appropriate legal, professional and ethical approval

Your participation will help us to understand student and qualified adult nurses' views on working with obese people and will allow us to develop other ways of supporting nurses in working with obesity.

All participants are eligible for entry in to a prize draw to win one of four £20 Amazon vouchers as a small token of our appreciation. However, this is optional and you can opt out of this in the survey itself. If you choose to take part, the prize draw will take place at the end of data collection on 31th May 2016 and the winners will be notified by email. We are expecting approximately 218 participants to take part in this study.

Thank you for taking the time to read this information sheet. If you would like more information please contact us. For any complaints or concerns specifically regarding this study please contact the principle researcher in the first instance or another member of the research team. If you experience any personal distress in completing this study please use the helpline number information provided at the end of this study to contact the appropriate organization to support you.

 

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Study Contact details

Elisabeth Goad (Principle Researcher)
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
PsychD Doctoral Training Programme
University of Surrey
e.goad@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Kate Gleeson (Supervisor)
Research Director)
PsychD Doctoral Training Programme
School of Psychology
University of Surrey
k.gleeson@surrey.ac.uk

Dr Sue Jackson (Supervisor)
Teaching Fellow
PsychD Doctorate Training Programme
School of Psychology
University of Surrey
s.jackson@surrey.ac.uk