Participants needed!
James L. Nuzzo (PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia) and James Steele (PhD, Associate Professor at Solent University) are conducting a study on how exercises are named and communicated. It’s a cross-sectional, survey study, and participation is estimated to take 8-10 minutes (Survey URL). What do you call certain exercises? Fill in the survey, and discuss at the end what importance (if any) this has.
1. PROJECT TITLE: Exercise Names Survey
2. RESEARCHERS: Dr. James L. Nuzzo, Dr. James Steele
3. PURPOSE: The purpose of this survey is to learn about how exercises are named and communicated.
4. ELIGIBILITY: You must be 18 years of age or older to take this survey.
5. PROCEDURES: If you choose to participate in this survey, you will look at photographs of exercises and be asked if you recognise the exercises and what you personally call the exercises. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. The survey is not a test of knowledge.
6. VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION: Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. You do not have to participate in this survey if you do not want to. If you do not wish to answer a question, you may skip it and go to the next question or you may stop the survey immediately.
7. POSSIBLE RISKS: There are no known risks to participating in this research project.
8. POSSIBLE BENEFITS: This research is not expected to provide direct benefits to you.
9. COMPENSATION: There is no compensation, financial or otherwise, for participation in this survey.
10. PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY: Your responses will be anonymous and confidential. We will not ask your name or any other directly identifiable personal information. Your answers will be grouped together with responses from other survey takers. We intend to publish the survey results in a research journal and to present the results at research conferences. We are not collecting your name or other identifying information and therefore your name or other identifying information will not be included in any publications or presentations of the survey results.
11. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Dr. James L. Nuzzo, the Chief Investigator of this research study, is the Head of Exercise Science Research at Vitruvian and an Adjunct Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Vitruvian is a private company that designs and sells exercise equipment. Results from this study might help to improve products and services offered by Vitruvian and other companies, organisations, and institutions. Results from the study will be shared with Human Kinetics and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
12. RESEARCH APPROVAL: This research project has received the approval of Edith Cowan University’s Human Research Ethics Committee, in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (Updated 2018). The approval number is 2021-02687-NUZZO.
If you have any questions about your rights as a survey participant, you can contact a Research Ethics Support Officer at Edith Cowan University by email at research.ethics@ecu.edu.au or by phone at +61 8 6304 2170. If you have questions about the study purpose and procedures, you can contact the Chief Investigator Dr. James L. Nuzzo by email at j.nuzzo@ecu.edu.au.
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