Category: Current Research Seeking Participants

Find below current research studies seeking participants or patient representatives.

Categories
Current Research Seeking Participants Research

Clinician Participants Needed – Knee Osteoarthritis Practice Survey

Researchers at Western University are inviting healthcare professionals involved in the management of knee osteoarthritis to participate in a brief online survey examining current clinical practices.

This study aims to identify commonly used diagnostic and treatment strategies and explore potential differences between clinical guidelines and real-world practice. The findings will help inform future clinical recommendations and healthcare resource planning.

Participation Details

• Survey takes approximately 5–10 minutes

• Participation is voluntary

• Conducted securely via Qualtrics

• Participants may optionally indicate interest in a follow-up interview

Eligibility Criteria

Participants must be:

• A registered healthcare professional (e.g., general practitioner, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, rheumatologist, orthopedic specialist, or related provider)

• Currently treating or have experience managing patients with knee osteoarthritis

• Practicing for at least 1 year

• Able to read and write in English

🔗 Access the survey:

https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23NJtoHRhsLgIcK

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Research

Call for Participants: Digital Health Usability Survey

The OutcomesRUS Lab, based at the Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (RI-MUHC, McGill University), is conducting a research study to develop a measure that identifies key indicators of usability in digital health technologies.

The research team is seeking feedback from individuals who currently use or have experience with digital health tools.

You may be eligible to participate if you use:

  • Wearable health technologies (e.g., Fitbit, Oura Ring)

  • Health or activity-tracking applications (e.g., Strava or similar apps)

Your input will help improve the design and usability of future digital health technologies by ensuring they reflect real user experiences.

🔗 Survey link:

https://forms.gle/T5YfbJb8zqajGKEt8

Thank you for contributing to research that supports better digital health solutions.

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Research

Improve Knee Joint Health Through Exercise – Study

The Mobilize Lab at the University of Waterloo is recruiting participants between the ages of 25 to 44 years old, who are currently sedentary (> 20 minutes of exercise per day) to participate in their research study.

Participants will receive 16-weeks of FREE virtual resistance training, $50 after study completion, and those who regularly exercise will be entered into bi-weekly giveaways valued at $25!

Over a 20-week period, you will be asked to complete 3 online exercise classes per week, and visit the University of Waterloo (2x) and St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton (2x) to:

  • Take MRI scans of your knee before and after a treadmill walk to measure cartilage
  • Assess body size measurements
  • Collect blood, to measure immune and inflammatory cells
  • Analyze how your leg moves, to measure forces inside the knee
  • Complete questionnaires to assess your activity and health

To learn more visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/mobilize-clinical-biomechanics-lab/projects/do-you-need-momentum-get-active

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants

Wording Approaches for the Strength of Recommendation – Survey

The McMaster GRADE Centre is seeking participants to complete a brief 5-minute survey on how to phrase health recommendations for broad audiences.

Access the brief survey here: https://www.research.net/r/RecWordingApproaches

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Research

Help Shape Canada’s Bone Health Research for the Next Decade!

OsNET and the University of Waterloo are conducting a priority setting survey and looking for researchers, healthcare professionals, policy makers, other knowledge users, or persons with lived experience related to bone disease to share their voice in a two-step survey.

There are two steps in the study, both anonymous. The first step invites participants to submit what they think are important research priorities (up to five) related to bone health for Canadians in the next 10 years. Once all submissions are received, we will streamline and group them. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete the survey.

For step two, we will invite you to score submitted research priorities in groupings that are relevant to you. The criteria we will use to evaluate the research priorities relate to whether the research questions are answerable, have the potential to reduce the burden of bone disease or advance the field, and are accessible to, or are beneficial for equity-deserving groups. It takes about 10-30 minutes to complete the survey. Your submitted scores will be used to establish research priorities for bone health in Canadians over the next 10 years.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Research Assistant Hung Nguyen: hm5nguyen@uwaterloo.ca

For more information: https://osnet.ca/platforms/research-platform-2-clinical-research/osnet-priority-setting-project/?fb-edit=1

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Research

Seeking Participants – Survey on Telerehabilitation

If you are a rehabilitation patient who receives or has already received their care via telerehabilitation or who would be interested in telerehabilitation you are invited to participate in University of Montreal survey on your experiences.

Duration: Approximately 20 minutes

To participate please access this link: https://bit.ly/Sondage_Patients_Telereadaptation_Patients_Telerehabilitation_Survey

Contact Dahlia Dairy at 514-343-6111 ext. 14691 or at dahlia.kairy@umontreal.ca for a paper or PDF version, or if you need help completing the survey.

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Opportunities

Perspectives of Firefighters and Clinicians on the Causes and Management of Work-Related Shoulder Disorders – Seeking Participants

Clinicians (Physiotherapists, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Occupational Therapists) are invited to join a study on the causes and management of work-related shoulder disorders among firefighters. Eligible participants must have treated at least one firefighter with a work-related shoulder disorder/injury.

If you volunteer to participate, you will be asked to:

  • Complete a demographic survey on Qualtrics (3 minutes)
  • Do a phone, online or face-to-face interview about your perspectives on the causes and management of work-related shoulder disorders. (30-45 minutes).

Participants will receive a $25 CAD Amazon gift card following a 30-45 mins semi-structures interview.

To participate: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PdNNqDE28EPGtM
Contact: tosifeso@uwo.ca for further inquires.

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants

3 Question Survey – Sociodemographic Questions in the Canadian Context

A project from Western University is conducting critical groundwork for a future grant application intended to develop and share a ‘core set’ of social and demographic questions for use in MSK rehabilitation research in Canada. The long-term goal of this program of research is to create a set of sociodemographic (SD) questions that are relevant to the Canadian context, to make those widely available, and to establish a mechanism for routine re-evaluation and revision of those questions as social sensibilities inevitably change with time.

As a first step, and taking no longer than 5 minutes: the research team is asking of all MSK Rehabilitation Research Network members, to append to the below survey any form(s) that you are currently or have recently used in an MSK-specific research project that has not yet been published (though could be on a preprint server). The research team does not want to see the data, only the questions being asked and the response options provided to participants. Word, PDF, or even screenshots of surveys are all accepted at this stage. We can accept these questions in either English or French. We will also invite you to provide a very brief few sentences on the purpose/context of the study from which the forms have come (e.g., age group, condition being studied, study design). We will extract the SD questions and response combinations verbatim and interpret them for constructs being collected, alongside all other such questions we extract from other researchers in Canada. The intention is to identify: a) what SD constructs are being most commonly collected by MSK researchers in Canada, b) how they are being collected, and c) similarities and differences across groups or research contexts.

The quick 3 question survey can be accessed here: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_55

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

uwo.eu.qualtrics.com

The research team will appreciate receiving responses within 2 weeks (by August 9th, 2024).

 

Categories
Announcements Current Research Seeking Participants Trainee Opportunities

Summer School Topics Survey 2025

If you are an MSK Network Trainee please complete the survey linked below to provide your input on a summer school topic of interest for 2025. The purpose of this short (2-question) survey is to engage trainees to determine what subjects they are most interested in attending a summer school on.

The survey can be accessed here: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0B9dNiIWDFaZv6u

If you have interest in helping plan a summer school or have a potential location for a summer school, please reach out to the Network Coordinator at rehabnet@uwo.ca.

If you have any questions about the survey or Network summer schools, please reach out to the Network Coordinator at rehabnet@uwo.ca.

Categories
Current Research Seeking Participants

Patient Partner Survey – IMHA

The Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) and For Patients, by Patients’ (PxP) have put out a survey to inform patient engagement. They aim to learn more about resources to support writing skills among patient partners, support what patient partners would like to know about digital health, and help support patient partner led research.

If you would like to complete the survey, please access the link here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bavOeyCONCLPWvA

For questions regarding the survey or about CIHR-IMHA or PxP please contact: IMHA-IALA@cihr.irsc.gc.ca