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Online Support & Quality of Life

Does Online Support Improve Your Quality of Life

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Updated May 22, 2010

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This online survey is open to any HIV positive person who wants to take a survey regarding their online experience and how it has improved of if it has improved their quality of life living with HIV. Below you will find the recruitment information and an explanation of the survey.

Dear members,

My name is Phoenix and I am a doctoral candidate at Institute of Work, Health and Organisation, the University of Nottingham. As part of my doctoral research I am conducting a survey which aims to explore the effects of health-related online support group use on health and quality of life for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. I would like to invite individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS to take part in this survey.

Your response would be very important to help us gain a better understanding of the experiences and needs of individuals living with HIV/AIDS. We intend to publish our results in relevant academic and professional journals and we hope they will serve as important tools in guiding the design and evaluation of online intervention initiatives and to improve the quality of life of individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

We anticipate that this survey would take approximately 20 minutes to complete. If you are over 18 years old and are living with HIV/AIDS, please click the link below to access the survey. Your views will be treated in strictest confidence and we will not identify you from your response. Ethical approval has been obtained from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisation of the University.

http://www.onlinesupportresearch.co.uk/study3/

Should you have any enquiries, please don't hesitate to contact me at lwxkhm1@nottingham.ac.uk. Thank you very much in advance and we are looking forward to hearing from you.

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