Participants are needed for an Internet study on menopausal symptoms.

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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/