Informed Consent
You are being asked to participate in an online survey for a research project by Sarah McKenzie Prather, a clinical psychology doctoral student at National Louis University, Illinois School of Professional Psychology. The study is called "Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student Attitudes Toward Clinical Psychologists with a Mental Health Condition." The purpose of this study is to determine the factors influencing negative beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness. This study will help researchers develop a deeper understanding of the beliefs held by doctoral students toward clinical psychologists with mental illnesses. This information outlines the purpose of the study and describes your involvement and rights as a participant.
Participation in the Study
Completing the following online survey is expected to take approximately 25 minutes. Your participation is voluntary and can be discontinued without penalty or bias. The results of this study may be published or otherwise reported at conferences to inform stigma awareness and prevention. Data collection is anonymous. No personally identifying data will be collected or revealed (data will be reported anonymously and bear no identifiers that could connect data to individual participants). The data without personally identifiable information may be used for future research. To ensure confidentiality of the anonymized data, the researcher(s) will keep the data file of compiled results in a password-protected folder, which only the researcher, Sarah McKenzie Prather, and her dissertation project chair, Dr. Emese Vitalis, will have access to. After the data collection period is completed, the survey and data will be deleted from the online survey system, and data without personally identifiable information may be used for future research.
There are no anticipated risks or benefits, no greater than those encountered in daily life. However, should you experience any psychological discomfort due to feeling fear/worry and/or physical reactions such as increased heart rate and nausea in response to thoughts of mental health stigma or you would like more information about stigma, please utilize the following resources that can provide you with confidential support and information: the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Helpline – (800) 950-6264, Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) – (240) 485-1001 or the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – (866) 615-6464.
Further, the information gained from this study could be useful to clinical psychology doctoral programs and mental health providers to educate and promote awareness of mental health stigma and the impact it can have. Upon request, you may receive summary results from this study and copies of any publications that may occur. Please email the researcher, Sarah McKenzie Prather, at sprather@my.nl.edu if you have questions or to request results from this study.
