What is involved?
Your responses to the survey will depend on your most recent experience with eating disorder peer work. If you have more than one experience, choose the option to question 2 that is most relevant to you. Depending on the length of your responses, the survey will take anywhere from 15 minutes to 20 minutes to complete. You do not have to answer all of the questions and can discontinue at any time. The survey is voluntary, and you can choose to exit the survey at any point. Each participant will go into a draw to win one of two $50 vouchers and one $100 voucher.
Your responses to the survey will be kept confidential, and all data collected will be de-identified. Before entering the survey, you will be asked whether you consent to have your de-identified data collected and used as a part of developing the Eating Disorder Peer Workforce Guidelines.
When you get to the end of the survey, there is the opportunity to select whether you would like to participate in one of our two focus groups. Please note that you will need to provide an email address to be contacted. One focus group will involve peer workers (including carer peer workers) and another will involve people with lived experience of an eating disorder who have accessed eating disorder peer work (including carers). Within the focus groups, participants will work together in a mapping exercise to identify common themes, concepts, and ideas from the de-identified survey data, will examine the relationships between the concepts, and will design draft guiding principles that will underpin the Eating Disorder Peer Workforce guidelines. Participation in the focus groups will be paid.