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You have the opportunity to help researchers at the University of New Brunswick conducting a study understand how chronic pain conditions interfere with relationships!

This study is designed to help understand how pain/health issues affect people’s views of themselves as eligible, valuable romantic partners, as some of UNB’s ongoing research suggests people beliefs about their worth as a potential partner is used as a reason to defer dating/staying single despite a desire for a partner. They think it’s possible CP contributes to feelings of shame, perceptions of low self-esteem and relationship competency, and low satisfaction in relationships via pain’s contributions to physical limitations and mental health symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety).

If you are Canadian and at least 18 years old, or American and at least 21 years old, you are eligible to participate. Since the questionnaires can be done online, the study is open to all consenting adults.

In the questionnaires, you will be asked for a little bit of information about you (e.g., age, gender), any persistent health conditions you may experience, your relationships, and your feelings about yourself. It will take 30- 45 minutes to complete the questionnaires. Participation is voluntary and all information you choose to share will be kept confidential. All participants will be entered into a drawing to receive a $10 honorarium (i.e., a gift card) for their time.

If you are interested in learning more about the study please go to the study website at https://survey.psyc.unb.ca/HealthAndRelationships.aspx or contact Lyndsay Crump (doctoral student in clinical psychology), Rehabilitation Psychology Research Laboratory (University of New Brunswick) at rehablabUNB@gmail.com.

Please note that getting more information about this study does not obligate you to participate. This project has received ethics approval from the University of New Brunswick (REB 2015-120).

Have you heard of this new site called YourCareMoments?

It’s, like, kinda awesomesauce.

And by kinda, I mean lots. Why? YOU GET PAID to do surveys based on your illnesses that help to further research and understanding of what we go through.

What’s not to like about that?

The sign up process is super simple – you just sign up here and give some basic information about yourself.

Not all illnesses are in there yet, and not all illnesses that they have are getting researched, BUT they probably will shortly!

Every so often, you’ll get emails like this one asking you to participate in a survey that YourCareMoments thinks you’ll be eligible for. The nicest thing is that, unlike some survey sites where you do this long 40 minute survey only to be found ineligible, these questions are designed for you to know if you’re right within the first TWO QUESTIONS.

The money you get depends on the length of the survey, but the ones I’ve done have each gotten me about $7 for 5 minutes or so of questions. They send me a link and I can deposit that into my PayPal account.

I’ve used that money to help other chronic illness people have enough gas to get to appointments and such. It helps me feel good to be able to give back like that.

So come join me in getting money by participating in research and helping to improve the lives of others living with chronic illnesses!