Kansas 2021 Young Adults Survey

On behalf of the Kansas Prevention Collaborative, we are asking for your help on an important study surveying young adults about health behaviors and their public health implications, including the effectiveness of programs among those between the ages of 18 to 25. Your participation is incredibly important, as only 700 adults statewide in Kansas have been randomly selected to take part in this study. This survey should only take about 10 minutes.

Your answers are confidential. Confidential means that the research records will include some information about you, and this information will be stored in such a manner that some linkage between your identity and the response in the research exists. All data will be stored on independent secured sites with access limited to members of the research team. After information that could identify you has been removed, de-identified information collected for this research may be used by or distributed to investigators for other research without obtaining additional permission from you.

To help us protect your privacy, we have obtained a Certificate of Confidentiality from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. We can use this Certificate as researchers to legally refuse to disclose information that may identify you in any federal, state, or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or other proceedings, for example, if there is a court subpoena. We will also use the Certificate to resist any demands for information that would identify you, except for voluntary disclosure of information by yourself or any disclosure that you have provided written consent in writing.

As a thank you for completing our survey, we would like to offer you a $10 Amazon or Walmart gift card. If you are eligible to participate, you will be re-directed to a link at the end of the survey. After providing us with your email, which will not be linked in any way with your survey responses, your gift card will be processed and sent to the email you provided.

Again, your participation is voluntary. The risks associated with your participation are not expected to exceed those encountered in everyday life. You may end this survey at any time, and you may skip questions you do not want to answer. The benefits you may receive by participating are limited to helping researchers understand the implications of how health behaviors affect young adults like yourself.

If you have any questions about this research project, you may contact Dr. Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, by email at akoning@rutgers.edu or by phone at 848-932-8995. If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, you can contact the Institutional Review Board at Rutgers University (which is a committee that reviews research studies in order to protect research participants) at: Arts & Sciences Institutional Review Board, Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. Liberty Plaza / Suite 3200 335 George Street, 3rd Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 732-235-2866, human-subjects@research.rutgers.edu.

If you do not wish to take part in the research, close this website. If you wish to take part in the research, follow the directions below.  Please print out this consent form if you would like a copy of it for your files.

By beginning this research, I acknowledge that I am 18 years of age or older and have read and understand the information. I agree to take part in the research, with the knowledge that I am free to withdraw my participation in the research without penalty.

Click on “I AGREE” below to confirm your agreement to take part in the research and enter the survey.

 

I AGREE