Recruiting [US] Help Us Enhance Our Counterfeit Drug Survey

[RMPDS_Research]

Hello everyone,

My name is Ana. I am a Research Manager for Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety (RMPDS), and I am posting here to recruit volunteers to beta test one of our research surveys.

RMPDS is a leading organization dedicated to protecting and promoting public health through scientific research, poison prevention, and advocating safe drug use. Our research studies have been used by many different organizations to design treatment programs, evaluate real-world drug use, and inform policy decisions. Our research track record can be found on our website.

I am recruiting volunteers to beta test a survey. This will help us ensure the questions can be understood by a diverse group of people who have used or may use street drugs. Your responses will be analyzed by our researchers to identify questions that may be poorly understood, wording that causes confusion, and your suggestions to improve question wording. Your responses will help our researchers make changes to the survey, which will increase its impact.

The survey questionnaire you are testing asks about the use of counterfeit drugs, or drugs that are made to look like a real pharmaceutical medication, but actually contain some other drug or nothing at all. It is a valuable tool in one of our research programs. The survey contributes largely towards our goal of having accurate, timely data on drug use which will help us inform strategies that may prevent drug overdose. The research study has been approved by the University of Colorado Institutional Review Board.

To test the survey, you may spend a total of 15-20 minutes of your time. This is an online survey with self-reported answers.

We are specifically looking for volunteers who:

• Are over 18 years old
• Have access to the internet
• Currently reside in the United States of America

The survey can be found by clicking here: https://redcap.link/1tas4aaa

If you are interested or have any questions regarding this survey, please reach out to us via email at [email protected] or the Bluelight private messaging system.

Thank you for your time!

 

[neversickanymore]

Welcome to BL and I bet you receive a helpful response.

@Tronica as she is genius on this

 

[Tronica]

Thanks @neversickanymore - I've already been emailing with their team

 

[Tronica]

Just a note of clarification on this survey from the researchers. The survey is not anonymous but the researchers have a certificate of confidentiality (this means that the research data are legally protected from subpoena).

We do collect signed consent per our IRB requirements for the study. This survey contains some questions about counterfeit drug use, however, the primary focus of the data collection is improving and validating how we ask these questions rather than the responses to those questions themselves. We have a certificate of confidentiality for this study that further protects the privacy of participants. So, this survey is not anonymous, but the information collected is protected and confidential.

 

[Tronica]

Hi everyone

Due to feedback from our community, this survey no longer requires a signature to participate - you can now do so anonymously.

These researchers have helped us raise funds to pay for the costs of running Bluelight, so we would really appreciate if some of our community took some time to complete this survey and provide any feedback directly to this thread (or to me if you prefer and I can pass it along).