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Hello, my name is Andrew Wood and I am a doctoral student at the University of Central Florida. I am conducting a study for my dissertation on prostate cancer and how it affects couples. In this study, I am looking at assessments from prostate cancer survivors and their romantic or intimate partners (husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend, or significant other). I have contacted the administrator for this page to get approval to post an advertisement for my study and want to thank you for the opportunity to post this message. I understand that the group is used to provide education and support and I do not want to interfere with that in any way, as I consider myself a prostate cancer advocate and want to provide more knowledge to the mental health field as to how couples deal with the disease and how to help make their lives better.
This is an online survey. Both individuals (prostate cancer survivors and their partners) should take it one after the other, but try to keep your own responses private. Either person can initiate the survey, but the other must complete it. The entire survey should take 15-30 minutes in total.
In order to participate in this study, you must be over the age of 18, currently be in a romantic or intimate relationship, and one person must have had a diagnosis of prostate cancer.
For your time, I will be donating $1.00 for each person that completes the survey ($2.00 per couple) to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. The Safeway foundation is currently matching donations (until December 31st), making each couple that participates essentially donating $4.00.
If you and your partner would like to take the survey, please follow this link:
http://goo.gl/Wwbhin
If you have any questions or concerns about the survey before, during, or after taking it, you can reach me here or at a.wood@knights.ucf.edu and I can provide you with further contact information for my adviser and/or the University of Central Florida Institutional Review Board.
I will be posting a link to this survey a few more times between now and January 16th to ensure that the greatest amount of people see it. Thank you for your time.
