Web survey about online drug discussion

Monica Barratt (http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff.asp?persid=650) (PhD student from the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University) invites you to complete an anonymous 15 minute survey about online drug discussion, drug information sources, online forums and pill testing.

You are eligible to complete the survey if you:
(1) have ever used ecstasy/MDMA,
(2) have ever used online forums,
(3) usually live in Australia, and
(4) are at least 16 years old.

Survey Link! (https://drugsonforums.turningpoint.org.au/index.php?sid=24)

This survey is part of a larger research project I'm doing (my PhD) which is described in more detail on the project website. (http://www.ndri.curtin.edu.au/drugsonforums/)

As well as being interested in online forums and drug discussion, I wanted to make sure that some of the people who tend not to be surveyed in Australia were included, namely people who (1) use drugs occasionally, and (2) people who don't live in the big capital cities. So, you are all welcome!

Feel free to post any questions or comments in here, interested to hear your views on this topic.

Thanks so much,
Monica

Monica Barratt (PhD student from the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University) invites you to complete an anonymous 15 minute survey about online drug discussion, drug information sources, online forums and pill testing.

You are eligible to complete the survey if you:
(1) have ever used ecstasy/MDMA,
(2) have ever used online forums,
(3) usually live in Australia, and
(4) are at least 16 years old.

Survey Link!

This survey is part of a larger research project I'm doing (my PhD) which is described in more detail on the project website.

As well as being interested in online forums and drug discussion, I wanted to make sure that some of the people who tend not to be surveyed in Australia were included, namely people who (1) use drugs occasionally, and (2) people who don't live in the big capital cities. So, you are all welcome!

Feel free to post any questions or comments in here, interested to hear your views on this topic.

Thanks so much,
Monica

I appreciate all your hard work tronica   :)

I appreciate all your hard work tronica   

cheers, that's nice to hear!

And I get to browse around and get some more tunes while I'm at it.

Hey, just checking the responses and have had a few of you do the survey... just like to say THANKS!

Hope y'll have great weekends!

I appreciate your comment. I definitely intend to put it to good use - it should show a wide range of drug use and experiences online, and I'll be doing some online interviews to get into that in more depth. Even if I can just get some different perspectives about drug information online out into the wider community, I think that would be useful.

I've had a good response so far - it's been online just over 2 weeks and I'm up to 420 responses! Thanks to everyone's who's helped with it.

trizzy-fiddler, if you are keen to support the project further, feel free to send the contents of my original post to your friends - that tends to work pretty well in my experience.

I can also produce preliminary results and post them up here. Let me know which questions you are interested in seeing the results of!

i have just finished taking that survey and i was impressed it's the most in depth and relevant drugs survey i have been involved with. i hope that others too will partake and answer honestly. I also hope that all this research is put to a good use.

again thanks

I appreciate your comment. I definitely intend to put it to good use - it should show a wide range of drug use and experiences online, and I'll be doing some online interviews to get into that in more depth. Even if I can just get some different perspectives about drug information online out into the wider community, I think that would be useful.

I've had a good response so far - it's been online just over 2 weeks and I'm up to 420 responses! Thanks to everyone's who's helped with it.

trizzy-fiddler, if you are keen to support the project further, feel free to send the contents of my original post to your friends - that tends to work pretty well in my experience.

I can also produce preliminary results and post them up here. Let me know which questions you are interested in seeing the results of!

thankyou i'll def give the survey to some of my friends

Hello & Happy 2008!

A feature article, "Connect and stay safe?", has just been published which explains a bit more about the project and the ideas behind it. 

Thanks to all those who have done the survey, I'm really grateful for your efforts and humbled by the numbers of people prepared to donate their time to this cause!

For those interested in the online interview, if there's one lesson I've learnt in this PhD process is that 'everything takes twice as long as you expect'. I've only just gotten around to starting the interviewing, and I apologise for the delay

What's this survey, you say? Check it out here. I'd love to get your input too. By reading this forum, you've already met one of the selection criteria

As always, comments-questions-critiques are welcome.

I just found out that I've been accepted to present a paper at the Club Health 2008 conference in Ibiza/Spain in June. It will be the first from the PhD results. Its title is: "Ecstasy/MDMA content and purity information in Australia: results from a web survey of online forum participants". Let me know if you'd like to read the abstract!

Currently the survey has 729 valid responses from 1103 which is a great effort. Thanks to everyone who has helped out! I've also recently completed 8 online interviews with forum users. I'm resting that for the moment to do a little of the analysis of these transcripts and then I'll do some more. People have been really enthusiastic about the interviews, which has been great for me to see.

I'll keep the survey open a little longer. So please take this chance to be involved, the more the merrier. Thanks again to the forum moderators and admins for your support of this project

Congrats!!!

i'd love to read the abstract congrats! how far into ur phd are u?

Thanks!!


I've been at it now for just on 2 years. It suits me well but am looking forward to having a normal income. Scholarship is great but just have to live like a student... makes it a bit harder to save for trips to Europe

Check your PMs 

Thanks for your support for my project and your contributions through the survey and interviews - I really appreciate it, there's so much for me to write about now in my PhD! This topic has been really interesting to talk to people about, and I've been amazed at how enthusiastic people are to tell me about their experiences.

I will be closing the survey on Wed April 2nd (next week). I'll post a summary of results soon after.

If you haven't already done the survey, now is your last chance - click here: https://drugsonforums.turningpoint.org.au/index.php?sid=24  -- No need to do it twice though!

all the best,
monica

Haha, I read that sllightly wrong 

Yes, it could be misread to imply that I am endorsing the largest weekend ever before all supply stops next week *





* this is, of course, not what I meant - lol!

The only online drug survey that I have participated in that has any relevance to the real world.

Well done!

 

Sounds like you know something we don't..... looks like it's going to be a big weekend then 

I just wanted to let you all know that the data collection for the Drugs on Forums online survey has finished. Over the 6-month period it was online (2/10/07 to 3/4/08), 1322 responses were received.
 
I set out to reach a large group across the country and I’m pleased to report that my targets were met. The main sample of 915 represents respondents who were located in Australia and had read or participated in online drug discussion in the past 6 months.

I’d like to thank you all for your support of the project and for the time spent completing my survey. I thought I’d share some of the characteristics of the sample.

See the project website for a few preliminary results:
http://www.ndri.curtin.edu.au/drugsonforums/project/progress.html

Given the size of the whole project, it will take some time to complete the full analysis. I will keep you informed as the story unfolds.

Thanks again for your support and I look forward to presenting more at a later date. As always, feel free to comment on the project in this thread or directly to me:
http://www.ndri.curtin.edu.au/drugsonforums/home/contact.html

PS. I have also just completed 29 online interviews. I was only able to interview a small proportion of those who were interested (all 298 of you), so I’m sorry if you missed out. Thanks to all those who took the time to share their stories with me!