From: beyondblue e-Network
Date: 2/07/2008 8:19:09 PM
To: ccspratt
Subject: Priorities for depression and bipolar disorder research - Survey of consumer opinions
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Dear beyondblue e-Network Member,

Subject: Priorities for depression and bipolar disorder research

Survey of consumer opinions

Can you help?

The Consumer Research Unit at the Centre for Mental Health Research would like information on your views as to what sort of research should be conducted on depression and bipolar disorder. [b]We think that it is important that consumers have a say about what research should be conducted.
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If you have personal experience of depression or bipolar disorder, please read on.

We have developed an online survey so that we can find out what questions you think researchers should be asking and answering. Lists of items were generated from discussion groups and interviews with mental health consumers. We would greatly appreciate your views on these.

Of course, participation in the survey is entirely voluntary and you are free to stop the survey at any time. Participation is anonymous, but please read the privacy statement at the bottom of this page before you begin the survey.

If you do provide information that could identify you, the study will not disclose or use any information you provide that could identify you unless we are required to do so by law.

If you have experienced depression or bipolar disorder and you are willing to participate in the survey please click on the link below.

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You will be prompted for a username and password, which are as follows:

Username: beyondblue

Password: priorities

At the completion of the study, we will send a summary of our findings to the beyondblue e-Network convener for distribution to members of the network.

If you have any questions about the survey please contact Michelle Banfield - email

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We would very much appreciate your help with this research.

Yours sincerely,

Michelle Banfield, BA(Hons) BSc, PhD student, Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research

Associate Professor Kathy Griffiths, PhD, Director, Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research

Privacy
We recognise that your privacy is very important to you and that we are under a legal obligation to protect the integrity of your personal information.

Storage and security of your personal information
The Centre for Mental Health Research will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep all information about you secure. Your information is held on a secure server at the Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University. All staff as well as all ANU employees and contractors that provide services related to our information systems, are obliged by law to respect the confidentiality of any personal information and/or research information held by the Centre for Mental Health Research. We will not use or disclose any information about you without your consent unless we are required to do so by law. Your personal results will only be identified by an ID number. This means that the researchers analysing the survey responses cannot tell who you are from the data that they are supplied.

Further information about privacy
The Centre has developed procedures to protect the security of any personal information collected during the course of this Project. The conduct of the Centre in relation to the personal information that we collect in our research projects is governed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The Privacy Act lays down a set of Information Privacy Principles, which oblige us to treat all the information given to us by participants with the utmost respect, and to take every possible measure to ensure that their confidence is never breached.

Publication of Results
We may publish some of the results from the study. This means that the data we gather from you and from our server may be averaged and published, or that we may publish comments that are made by participants in the survey. However, you will not be personally identifiable from the information that we publish.


The consumer priorities project has been approved by the Australian National University Ethics Committee. If you have any questions about the ethics approval, please contact the Australian National University Ethics Officer on

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Kind regards,


The team at beyondblue

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