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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 26, 2016 9:22 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Emergency Preparedness</font>
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Hello, I sent an message last semester seeking your assistance in sending an email to your rehabilitation counseling students asking if they would participate in a study related to measuring their competencies in assisting people with disabilities during disasters.
We still need more participants so I was hoping you could resend the survey to all of your students? I will send 2 more reminder emails every two weeks in hopes of increasing the sample size (if you could resend the survey each time that should increase participation).
Please let me know if you have any questions. See message below.</div>
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<b>-Matt</b><b><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif">My name is Matthew Sprong and I am conducting a study to examine your competencies related to assisting people with disabilities during disasters</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif">. Please consider taking the survey
as we are attempting to develop training materials to make sure we all have the necessary competencies to prevent serious injury or death of persons with disabilities when disasters arise.</font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif">You will be asked to indicate how much you agree with a variety of short statements. The survey is expected to take approximately 15 minutes or less to complete. At the end of the survey, you will be asked to complete a short
demographic questionnaire. Please note that all of your responses are anonymous as I will be unable to link you to your data. I am not collecting geographic data or IP addresses, so once you complete the survey, there is no indication that you participated.
However, you will have an opportunity to enter your email into a drawing and be selected to win 1 of 10, $15 Visa gift cards.</font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif">To participate in this study, please click the following link: </font><a href="https://niu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bf5viBWSF6uV32R" target="_blank" id="LPlnk305459"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><font color="#366CCC">https://niu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bf5viBWSF6uV32</font></font></a></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman,serif">If you have any questions about this survey, please contact me at </font><a href="mailto:msprong1@niu.edu" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif">msprong1@niu.edu</font></a><font face="Times New Roman,serif">.
If you would like further information regarding your rights as a research subject, please contact the Office of Research Compliance at Northern Illinois University at 815-753-8588.</font></div>
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