Healing Art Experience

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects that participation in an online Healing Art Program has in reducing the negative effects of chronic pain on mental health, cognitive health, social health, and quality of life.

You will be asked to fill out one survey with 30 questions at registration for the program and one survey with 19 questions six months after registration. They each will require approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

There are no major physical or psychological risks are anticipated for those who take these surveys and participate in the program. It is possible that you may experience some stress or discomfort or other unforeseeable risks in the event the surveys or program cause you to recall past experiences of pain and discomfort. Some of the survey questions are personal in nature and it is possible that they may make you feel uncomfortable. You do not have to answer any questions that make you uncomfortable or that you do not want to answer.

The results of this survey will help researchers and the public to better understand the relationship between healing art and the effects of chronic pain. You may not directly benefit from completing this survey. However, your survey information will assist researchers in analyzing how organizations might improve access to programs that would benefit individuals with chronic pain. As part of general policy discussions on the relationship between healing art and pain management, the results of this study will be published and presented to the public.

Yes. Participation in this research is your choice. You may refuse to participate at any time. If you so choose, you may elect to stop participating in the program at any time or decline to complete Survey 2 in six months. There is no cost to your participation and no costs to you that may result from participation in this study. You may participate in the Healing Art Program without participating in this study.

No. The data collected for this survey does not require your real name and any information you provide will remain confidential; you will not be identified personally in any way at any time.

The results from these surveys will be compiled together and analyzed as a whole in electronic spreadsheets. Every effort will be made to keep all survey information confidential by storing all electronic data in secured, password-protected files in the Eastern Michigan University cloud drive. Your information will be stored in a password-protected computer file. We will store your information for five years after the study ends. We may share the survey information with other researchers outside of Eastern Michigan University; however, the data will not contain any information that could be reasonably used to identify you.

If you have any questions about the research, please contact:

Yvette Colón, PhD, ACSW, LMSW, Principal Investigator and Associate Professor
School of Social Work
College of Health and Human Services
Eastern Michigan University
206G Marshall Building
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
(734) 487-0921
ycolon@emich.edu

If you have any questions about your rights as a research subject, please contact the Eastern Michigan University Human Subjects Review Committee at human.subjects@emich.edu) or by phone at (734) 487-3090.