Project Information Sheet for Participants
We invite you to share with us your experience at the exhibit (either in person or online) and how it affects you from a well-being and environmental sustainability perspective.
This information sheet provides you with all the important information about the project and what your participation would involve. Please take the time to read the following information and if you have any questions, please do get in touch with us. Our contact details are provided at the bottom of this document.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
What is involved in participating?
We would like to ask you to complete an online survey about your experience at the exhibit. The survey contains 6 questions and should take approximately 5-7 min to complete. The questionnaire contains multiple choice, slider bar, ranking, and open text box questions about your experience at the exhibition and your care for nature. At the end, we would like you to answer 5 basic questions about how you came to the survey, your home setting, gender, age, and why you came to the health center today.
Who is eligible to participate in this survey?
All adults (aged 18 or over) who visit either the physical or online exhibition “Thrive! Healthy People-Healthy Planet”.
What are the aims of this research project?
Our overall goal is to engage with viewers of our art exhibition “Thrive! Healthy People-Healthy Planet” to find out how they experienced the exhibition.
Specific Aims:
- Quantify the nature of viewers’ cognitive and emotional experiences and how those experiences change by seeing the exhibition.
- Quantify how various elements of the exhibition contribute to viewers’ experiences.
- Explore how viewers value the ‘essentials for health’ portrayed in the exhibition.
- Assess to what extent the exhibition inspires pro-environmental behaviors.
Who is funding the project?
Nova Institute for Health, Baltimore MD, USA
Who is involved?
This project is being undertaken as part of the “Thrive! Health People-Healthy Planet” art exhibition. The project is led by Sara Warber, MD from the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine.
Will my taking part in the questionnaire be kept confidential?
The survey is anonymous and does not ask you to provide any personal or identifying details about yourself or anyone else. IP address or location data will not be recorded. Any identifying information inadvertently collected, for example, in a text box, will be deleted or redacted. The final dataset will therefore be anonymous and will be stored securely at the University of Michigan.
What will happen to the information I provide?
You will be asked to provide information in the form of text responses (one question), multiple choice options (two questions), ranking (one question), slider bars (two multi-part questions), and demographic details (five questions).
The use of survey software (Qualtrics) means that research data will be transferred to, and stored at a data center in the USA, as part of the University of Michigan’s Qualtrics service. Although no questions in the survey ask you to provide any personal or identifying details, identifiable data will be removed whenever possible, and any data transfer will be done securely and with data protection as required under US law.
These data will be downloaded and anonymized (if necessary) at the end of the project and will be stored securely at the University of Michigan. Anonymization will be documented along with any additional cleaning of the dataset.
Data, analysis, and results may be published in reports, publications, presentations, web pages, datasets, articles, and other research outputs. Words provided in text responses may also be quoted in these outputs. It will not be possible to identify participants from the outputs.
Do I have to take part?
No, participation is voluntary and you can withdraw from the study at any point without giving reasons and without any negative consequences.
How can I withdraw from the study if I wish to?
Please contact the lead researchers as soon as possible (email below). Once the data is anonymous, and/or when outputs have been published, it is not possible for data to be removed.
What are the benefits of taking part?
There will be no direct or personal benefit to you from taking part in this research. However, the research could support learning and reflection about how nature affects health and well-being and could help to inform better policies around promoting the health of people and the planet.
Personal Risks
There are no risks to taking part.
Ethical Review
The project has been reviewed by the Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board of University of Michigan.
For further project details, please contact:
Sara Warber, MD: swarber@umich.edu