Paid Volunteers
Needed for Research Study Examining Sleep, Work, and Social Relationships
When:
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Data collection will occur from January 7th through
January 13th. Your date
and time of participation will be flexible around your schedule.
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What will you get to do?
- We will send you a kit to
collect a small fecal sample (much like you would use for an at home colon
cancer screening) and a set of questionnaires about you and your sleep (≈4o
minutes).
- Shortly after, a researcher will contact you by telephone (≈7
minutes) to set up a time at your convenience to interview you in person about your
sleep, work, and social relationships.
We would also teach you how to fill out a sleep/wake diary and how
to use a Z-machine, a small electronic device that you sleep with in your
own home to measure your sleep (≈1 ½ hours).
- During the next two
nights, at bedtime, you will fill out a diary of your sleep-related
behaviors for the day, then you will sleep
in your own residence with the Z-machine. In the morning, you will complete a diary
about your sleep that night (≈30 minutes total).
- We will set up a convenient
time to return your materials and receive your incentive (≈5 minutes).
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What will you get?
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You
will receive $50 for completion of the study and self-knowledge about your
sleep.
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Who can participate?
- Participants must be 55-75
years of age
- You must have lived in or around
Loma Linda for at least the past 20 years (short periods away such as
schooling or work transfers can be ok).
- You must not have taken an
antibiotic during the last 2 weeks.
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How do you sign up?
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Send us an email at peszka@hendrix.edu or telephone
us at 501-450-1323 OR 501-242-2318 and we will contact you to set up the
times/dates/locations.
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Who are we?
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We are three professors, Dr. Peszka, Dr. Goldberg, and Dr.
Houck at Hendrix College, a small college in Arkansas, with research
interests in sleep, work, and social relationships.
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You can call Dr. Peszka at
(501) 450-1323 or (501) 242-2318 or email her at peszka@hendrix.edu if you have
any questions before you begin participation.