An Investigation of Attitudes Towards Addictive Disorders.
Project researcher: Lauryn McCubbin (2766201m@student.gla.ac.uk). Project supervisor: Dr Eugene Dawydiak (Eugene.Dawydiak@glasgow.ac.uk).
Invitation: You are being invited to take part in an online research study. Before you decide to take part, it is important for you to understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Please take time to read the following information carefully.
1.What is the purpose of this study? The purpose of this study is to explore attitudes towards addictive disorders, namely alcohol use disorder, gambling disorder and opioid use disorder.
2.Do I have to take part? No, it is up to you to decide whether or not to take part. If you do decide to take part, you will be asked to provide consent online. If you do decide to take part, you are still free to withdraw at any time and without giving a reason. You must be aged 18 years and over to participate.
3.Will my taking part in this study be kept confidential? Yes, no personally identifying information will be gathered during the survey and as such your taking part in this study will be entirely confidential. Because we won’t be able to identify your answers, there is no chance of retracting your data once you click the last submit button (the final page of the study provides an alert to this). If you wish to withdraw from the study, you must discontinue by closing the browser before completing the study.
4.What will participation involve? You will first be asked about your age and gender identity. You will then be asked to read three narrative descriptions about people who have been diagnosed with an addictive disorder (alcohol use disorder, gambling disorder and opioid use disorder). After each description, you will be asked to rate how you feel about them in a series of questions. Lastly, you will be asked to fill out a disgust sensitivity scale (the concepts relate to pathogen, moral and sexual disgust). We anticipate that participation will last approximately 20 minutes. We hope that you will find taking part in our research to be a worthwhile activity. We consider your views and experiences as extremely valuable to us.
5.What are the possible disadvantages and risks of taking part in the study? There are no anticipated disadvantages in taking part. However, if you feel that you may be unduly affected by either the items related to mental health, or the items related to pathogen, moral or sexual disgust, please discontinue your participation.
6.What will happen to the results of the research study? Your data is entirely anonymous and unidentifiable and will be gathered using GDPR compliant software and stored on a secure server. Data, without any personal identifying information, may be made publicly available in an online database for re-analysis by other researchers. Anonymous results of this study will be presented in a student dissertation project and may also be presented at conferences or published in journals, books, and the popular media. If you would like a summary of the results, this can be made available to you upon request from the researchers.
All data and results will be anonymous, kept confidential, and securely stored at all times. All data collected will be kept on a password protected computer with an encrypted hard drive for the duration of the project. This research is being conducted as part of a student research project. This research is conducted in accordance with the British Psychological Society's Code of Ethics and Conduct.
Who can I contact if I want more information? If you would like more information on the study, please contact the project researcher: Lauryn McCubbin (2766201m@student.gla.ac.uk), or the project supervisor: Dr Eugene Dawydiak (Eugene.Dawydiak@glasgow.ac.uk).
Privacy Notice for: An Investigation of Attitudes Towards Addictive Disorders.
The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to this research study titled “An Investigation of Attitudes Towards Addictive Disorders”. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow will process your personal data.
Why we need it
We are collecting your basic personal data such as your age and gender for the purposes of basic research and to describe them based on broad categories, but not to identify them in any way. We will only collect the minimum amount of data required for these purposes to minimise any risk of you being identified.
Legal basis for processing your data
In the context of research, the lawful basis upon which we will process your personal data is usually where “Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller” (Article 6 of UK GDPR). We will also process personal data as permitted by Article 9, of the UK GDPR which permits processing necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject. Where we need to rely on a different legal condition, such as consent, we will inform you of this in the Participant Information provided to you.
What we do with it and who we share it with
All the personal data you submit within this project is processed by staff and/or research students at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Data will not be sent outside the UK for any purposes at any time. Throughout the project and during the archiving period all data will be stored on password protected University servers.
How long do we keep it for
Your anonymous data may be retained indefinitely and may be made publicly available in an online database for re-analysis by other researchers.
Under the UK GDPR you have the following rights:
• to obtain access to, and copies of, the personal data that we hold about you; • to require that we cease processing your personal data if the processing is causing you damage or distress; • to require us to correct the personal data we hold about you if it is incorrect; • to require us to erase your personal data; • to require us to restrict our data processing activities; • to receive from us the personal data we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you, including for the purpose of you transmitting that personal data to another data controller; • to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to any of our particular processing activities where you feel this has a disproportionate impact on your rights.
Your rights to access, change (rectify), or remove your information (erasure) may be limited, as we need to manage your information in specific ways in order for the research to be reliable and accurate. If you withdraw from the study, we may not always be able to remove the information that we have already obtained. We must comply with a request to erase personal data, or to rectify personal data that is inaccurate unless there are grounds for refusing the request specified in the UK GDPR. To safeguard your rights, we will use the minimum personally-identifiable information possible. The Participant Information Sheet given to you will detail up to what point in the study data can be withdrawn as it may be anonymised after a certain point and thus no longer distinguishable as yours.. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please submit your request via the webform or contact dp@gla.ac.uk.
*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out.
Complaints If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/
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