Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University
of Texas at Austin and her colleagues are conducting a study to
explore ethnic differences in midlife women’s attitudes toward
physical activity. You are eligible to participate in this study if you are a midlife woman aged 40 to 60 years old who does not have any mobility problems; who can read and write English; who is online; and whose self-reported ethnic identity is Hispanic, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H African
American, or N-H Asian.  Data will be collected through
the Internet from Feb. 1, 2008 to May 31, 2011.  Methods for the data
collection include an Internet survey among 500& midlife women in the
U.S. on the Internet and four ethnic-specific online forum
discussions among about 30 midlife women per ethnic group
recruited among the Internet survey participants.
Your involvement will consist of the following: (a) about 30 minutes
are usually needed to complete the Internet survey questionnaire;
and (b) online forums will be conducted for 6 months, should
you agree to participate in the additional online forum discussion.
Your participation is asynchronous (you can visit the online forum
site and read and post messages at your convenience).
You will receive a gift certificate of 10 dollars for filling out the survey, and an additional gift certificate of 50 dollars for participating in the additional
online forum (only those who participate in the additional online
forum for 6 months will be provided with this additional gift
certificate). To get reimbursed for the online forums, you have to
post at least one message per topic. For more information,
please visit at our website http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu/MAPA/ and/or
contact us.

Contact Information:

Chelsea McPeek. Research Assistant, School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin

E:mail: cgmcpeek@mail.utexas.edu

1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 475-6352
Website: http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu/MAPA/
IP: 128.83.241.133

written by Deborah McBain, CNM MSN