Help for cancer blog user study
anonymous
April 26 2006, 17:38:53 UTC
Dear lymphoma:
This is a message to those of you who maintain/read/participate in blogs related to cancer. Might we request your assistance in an academic study about cancer blog usage?
My name is Deborah Chung, and I am an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications. My research focuses on the use of new communication technologies and their potential to empower information consumers. Currently, I am interested in examining how health information seekers, particularly cancer patients and their families/friends, adopt blogs.
I am teaming up with Dr. Sujin Kim, also at UK, who is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science and has a sub-specialization in medical informatics. She has been working closely with the UK Cancer Center to build a biorepository information system (UK-BIS) for lung and ovarian cancer samples. Together, we would like to learn about how new information channels, such as blogs, are being used by cancer patients and their families/friends - specifically we are interested in their motivations, uses and consequences of using blogs.
As approved by our internal review board (IRB) at UK, this study is an anonymous survey that does not carry any risks to cancer patients. At the same time, we believe the information gathered from this study will greatly contribute to our understanding of the adoption of new communication technologies by cancer patients. This information will in turn assist in supporting the needs of cancer patients for future information technology and service development.
Thus, we would appreciate your participation in our survey. You can find the survey at https://wintis.mowsey.org/survey/. You might get a notice regarding the validity of the certificate. If that happens, please continue to proceed.
We appreciate your time, and thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Deborah S. Chung, Ph.D Assistant Professor School of Journalism & Telecommunications University of Kentucky dchung@uky.edu
Sujin Kim, Ph.D Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Science University of Kentucky sujinkim@uky.edu
This is a message to those of you who maintain/read/participate in blogs related to cancer. Might we request your assistance in an academic study about cancer blog usage?
My name is Deborah Chung, and I am an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications. My research focuses on the use of new communication technologies and their potential to empower information consumers. Currently, I am interested in examining how health information seekers, particularly cancer patients and their families/friends, adopt blogs.
I am teaming up with Dr. Sujin Kim, also at UK, who is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science and has a sub-specialization in medical informatics. She has been working closely with the UK Cancer Center to build a biorepository information system (UK-BIS) for lung and ovarian cancer samples. Together, we would like to learn about how new information channels, such as blogs, are being used by cancer patients and their families/friends - specifically we are interested in their motivations, uses and consequences of using blogs.
As approved by our internal review board (IRB) at UK, this study is an anonymous survey that does not carry any risks to cancer patients. At the same time, we believe the information gathered from this study will greatly contribute to our understanding of the adoption of new communication technologies by cancer patients. This information will in turn assist in supporting the needs of cancer patients for future information technology and service development.
Thus, we would appreciate your participation in our survey. You can find the survey at https://wintis.mowsey.org/survey/. You might get a notice regarding the validity of the certificate. If that happens, please continue to proceed.
We appreciate your time, and thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Deborah S. Chung, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism &
Telecommunications
University of Kentucky
dchung@uky.edu
Sujin Kim, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
School of Library & Information Science
University of Kentucky
sujinkim@uky.edu
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