Survey - UK parents views towards children's use of e-cigare

[richarduel]

Hi everyone,

Our research team at the University of East London is currently working on a Cancer Research UK funded project that explores parent/carer views of their children’s possible/actual use of e-cigarettes.

If you're a parent/carer of at least one child aged 11-18 years old and live in the UK, please could you complete the following survey:

www.uelpsychology.org/ecigs

It's straightforward and only takes 10-15 minutes.

By completing the survey, you will also have the option to enter a monthly prize draw for £50 love2shop vouchers (please note: you must live in the UK to take the survey and be entered into the prize draw).

If you have any questions, please contact me on [e-mail].

Thanks for helping out!

Richard Greenhill
Research Assistant
University of East London

[car147]

Is this genuine?, or another bash vaping study?

[Chrissie]

Apr 21, 2016 20:03:02 GMT car147 said:

Is this genuine?, or another bash vaping study?

richarduel contacted us prior to posting this thread. We are pretty sure it is genuine, as his email addie shows he is connected to the University Of East London, so gave him permission to post about the survey.

[nanotm]

having taken the survey I would say its geared towards finding a preset answer,

if it was an honest survey then it would of asked a wider range of questions and offered more answer options, I wouldn't really advise anyone else to take it since its clearly going to produce yet another bash vaping /vapers result.

[Richard46]

Looks genuine to me especially as it has Lynne Dawkins name on it. However I would like to know what the population whose views are being sought is and how members of a vaping forum are likely to be respondents representative of that population?

When I got my Masters at UEL (when it was the Poly) I am sure my research paper had to provide answers to such questions. Although it was a long time ago.

[richarduel]

Apr 21, 2016 20:03:02 GMT car147 said:

Is this genuine?, or another bash vaping study?

Thank you to those who have already taken the survey.

To clarify, the study is genuine and is not in any way intended to bash vapers, or support any preconceptions. Lynne Dawkins is on the research team for this study and was instrumental in its conception and funding. If you are unfamiliar with Lynne's work, here is a video of her discussing the positives of e-cigarettes and recommending that smokers use them.

[richarduel]

Apr 22, 2016 8:49:57 GMT nanotm said:

having taken the survey I would say its geared towards finding a preset answer,

if it was an honest survey then it would of asked a wider range of questions and offered more answer options, I wouldn't really advise anyone else to take it since its clearly going to produce yet another bash vaping /vapers result.

Thank you for taking the survey nanotm.

I'm sorry to hear that you feel the survey is geared towards preset answers. This study is not in any way intended to bash vapers, or support any negative preconceptions. As myself and another poster have pointed out, Lynne Dawkins has been involved with this study from the start and has a body of work around vaping that is unbiased.

Surveys can often be restricted by space. Consequently, we are also running a follow-up interview study in which people will be able to fully explain and explore their views in a more open and detailed way. We hope that this will address some of the limitations of survey design and provide the opportunity for more in-depth and unrestricted answers.

[richarduel]

Apr 22, 2016 11:55:44 GMT Richard46 said:

Looks genuine to me especially as it has Lynne Dawkins name on it. However I would like to know what the population whose views are being sought is and how members of a vaping forum are likely to be respondents representative of that population?

When I got my Masters at UEL (when it was the Poly) I am sure my research paper had to provide answers to such questions. Although it was a long time ago.

Thank you for your questions Richard46 and nice to hear from a UEL alumnus.

We are seeking to recruit any UK parents/carers of 11-18 year old children for this survey. We have employed a number of different recruitment methods (e.g. via local secondary schools, using parent forums such as MumsNet) alongside recruiting from vaping forums. By taking this holistic approach to recruitment, we hope to achive a representative sample. In addition, it is important to the research team that we attempt to target parents/carers who are also vapers - as I imagine many of you are aware, vapers' views are often ignored and therefore we would like to listen to both vapers and non-vapers in this study.

[Richard46]

Apr 22, 2016 14:47:39 GMT richarduel said:

Apr 22, 2016 11:55:44 GMT Richard46 said:

Looks genuine to me especially as it has Lynne Dawkins name on it. However I would like to know what the population whose views are being sought is and how members of a vaping forum are likely to be respondents representative of that population?

When I got my Masters at UEL (when it was the Poly) I am sure my research paper had to provide answers to such questions. Although it was a long time ago.

Thank you for your questions Richard46 and nice to hear from a UEL alumnus.

We are seeking to recruit any UK parents/carers of 11-18 year old children for this survey. We have employed a number of different recruitment methods (e.g. via local secondary schools, using parent forums such as MumsNet) alongside recruiting from vaping forums. By taking this holistic approach to recruitment, we hope to achive a representative sample. In addition, it is important to the research team that we attempt to target parents/carers who are also vapers - as I imagine many of you are aware, vapers' views are often ignored and therefore we would like to listen to both vapers and non-vapers in this study.

Hi Richard Thanks for the prompt reply.

[richarduel]

Thank you to everyone who has taken the survey so far.

Over the past two months we have had a number of survey respondents from AAE-C and I have also carried out some really interesting interviews with both vapers and non-vapers.

If you're a parent and haven't already taken the survey, we would be very appreciative if you could:

www.uelpsychology.org/ecigs

It takes 10-15 minutes and by completing the survey, you will also have the option to enter a monthly prize draw for £50 love2shop vouchers.

Thanks again!

Richard

[GunJack]

If anyone's still in doubt about this, I did the survey, have conversed with Richard via e-mail and have done a phone-based interview session... all good