PARTICIPANT INFORMATION PAGE
Pain-colour associations for everyday pain
Name of Researcher: Lem Leach
Contact details of Researcher: ll2284@bath.ac.uk
Name of Supervisor / Co-investigator: Dr Janet Bultitude
Contact details of Supervisor / Co-investigator: j.bultitude@bath.ac.uk
This information page forms part of the process of informed consent. It should tell you what the research is about and what taking part will involve. Please read this information page carefully and ask one of the researchers named above if you have any questions.
1. What is the purpose of the project?
The purpose of this project is to understand what colours people associate with different forms of pain, and how these associations vary between people.
We are also interested in how these associations are similar or different between people with typical perception and people who experience a phenomenon called synaesthesia. In synaesthesia, stimulation of one sense is accompanied by an involuntarily secondary stimulation of a different sense. Here, we are interested in testing the colour-pain associations of people who have synaesthesia elicited by pain, as well as the associations of people without synaesthesia
2. Who can take part in this project?
You can take part if you are above the age of 16, consider yourself to have sufficient English language fluency to understand this consent form, and do not experience colour blindness.
You can take part regardless of whether you have pain synaesthesia or not.
3. Do I have to take part?
It is completely up to you to decide if you would like to take part or not. Before you decide, you should read the information in this page carefully. If you have any questions about this information, you can email the researchers using the email addresses at the top of this page. If you decide to take part, you will next be directed to a consent page.
Even if you consent to take part, you are free to withdraw from the study at any time if you change your mind. You can withdraw by closing the browser window. Any responses you have provided up to that point will be retained for analysis, since it will not be possible to identify your data.
4. What would taking part involve?
Taking part in this study will take approximately 30 minutes.
You will first answer some questions about yourself: your gender, age, country of origin and country of residence. Your answers to these questions will not affect the subsequent questions, although if you are below the age of 16 you cannot proceed further.
You will also be asked about any additional sensations that you may experience while going through pain.
The experimental task of the survey involves pain-colour associations. You will be prompted with a series of common pains and injuries (e.g. headache, grazed knee), with varying levels of intensities (mild or severe). Your task will be to indicate, using a colour picker, what colour you associate with feeling this pain, and the strength of that association.
If you indicate that you do experience additional sensations while going through pain, you will be asked some further questions about what your experience. These questions will be automatically skipped if you do not experience additional sensation when going through pain.
5. What are the exclusion criteria? (or - are there reasons why I should not take part?)
Participants must be aged 16 or older and must not be diagnosed with, or suspect you have colour-blindness. If you anticipate that the topics of the questionnaire may cause you physical or psychological harm, do not take part.
6. What are the possible benefits of taking part?
At the end of the study participants can leave their email address to be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher. The prize draw can be entered through a survey that is separate to the main study, meaning that your email address would not be associated with your study responses.
7. What are the possible disadvantages and risks of taking part?
This study asks about pain, including being prompted with certain injuries, accompanied by a pain intensity rating of the injury. Do not take part if you think this would cause you discomfort or distress.
8. Who will have access to the information that I provide?
The research team (and University governance staff where appropriate) will have access to your study responses. The data may also be shared with other researchers directly, or uploaded online so that other researchers can use it for their own research. It will not be possible to trace the information back to you, because the data are anonymous. If you choose to provide your email address for the prize draw, this is collected separately to the main study data and cannot be linked back to the study responses.
9. What will happen to the data collected and results of the project?
Your anonymous study data will be stored securely on password-protected computers and backed up on the University’s secure server (X Drive). Storage of data will be done in accordance with current UK data protection legislation. Recorded data will be stored securely and confidentially in the University archives for a minimum of 10 years.
If you choose to give your email address for the prize draw, this will be stored separately to the study data and deleted as soon as we have selected the prize winner (anticipated to be no more than one year from now).
10. Who has reviewed the project?
This project has been given a favourable ethics opinion by the University of Bath, Social Sciences Ethics Committee reference code: 7878-9610.
11. How can I withdraw from the project?
If you wish to withdraw your participation before completing all parts of the project, you can do so by closing the browser window. Because the data are anonymous, it will not be possible to identify which data are yours, so any data you provide before withdrawing will be retained for analysis.
12. University of Bath privacy notice
13. What happens if there is a problem?
If you have a concern about any aspect of the project, you should ask to speak to the researchers who will do their best to answer any questions. If they are unable to resolve your concern or you wish to make a complaint regarding the project, please contact the Research Governance and Compliance Team at
research-ethics@bath.ac.uk.
14. Who should I contact for more information?
Thank you for your interest in this project. Please do not hesitate to contact the researchers Lem Leach or Dr. Janet Bultitude if you would like more information.
Name of Researcher: Lem Leach
Contact details of Researcher: ll2284@bath.ac.uk
Name of Supervisor / Co-investigator: Dr Janet Bultitude
Contact details of Supervisor / Co-investigator: j.bultitude@bath.ac.uk
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