Family/Friend Caregiver Survey
I am a member of the Advisory Board for the Family/Friends Caregiver Project led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and University of Toronto’s Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN). This project is focused on developing measures to better assess, understand and respond to experiences and needs of families and other informal caregivers in Ontario. As a member of this exciting and much needed project, we would like to share a recruitment call for caregivers to participate in online pilot testing of a caregiver survey.
Call for participants: Are you caring for someone with a long-term health condition, physical or mental disability, substance use/addiction condition, or problems related to aging? We need your help to test an online survey. The survey should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
At the end of the survey, you will be able to view some preliminary results. As well, you will have the opportunity to select a caregiver organization to receive an honorarium payment of $5 on behalf of the Family/Friend Caregiver Survey.
Goal of the survey: To learn more about the benefits and challenges of caregiving. This information will help inform health care decision-making in Ontario, with the goal of improving caregiver supports and services.
Who can participate: Anyone who has provided unpaid help in the past 12 months to family, friends, or neighbours because of a long-term health condition, physical or mental disability, substance use/addiction condition, or problems related to aging. A long-term health condition is one that has lasted or is expected to last 6 months or longer. This includes if the person you have cared for has died in the past 12 months.
To access the survey, please visit: http://fluidsurveys.com/survey...-survey-summer-2015/
For more information: Contact Tiziana Volpe, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, at 416-535-8501, x 30751 or tiziana.volpe@camh.ca.
The survey is being developed by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto’s Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN). The survey is funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.