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Offline imogenamelia

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The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« on: December 10, 2017, 04:20:26 PM »
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On behalf of the self-harm research group within the University of Nottingham, supervised by Professor Ellen Townsend, who heads the Self-Harm Research Group here. We would like to ask you to participate in anonymous, innovative, online research.

Our study is an electronic version of the Card Sort Task for Self-harm (CaTS; Townsend et al., 2016) in which you are asked to arrange thoughts, feelings, events and behaviours in a sequential order along a 6-month timeline. Completion of the study will involve conducting the card sort along the timeline twice; for the first and most recent self-harm episode. We request that you are 18 years old or above and have lived experience of self-harm to take part.

Our focus is to understand the thoughts, feelings, events and behaviours leading up to a self-harm episode and thereafter. This study is based upon previous research using the same task in which we wish to further our understanding of self-harm that allows us to reach out to a wider participant population. Participants that have already completed the study have reported having a greater insight into their own self-harm behaviour, which they have found beneficial, as a result of the CaTS.

We would appreciate it if you would support us by completing this study to further help us understand self-harming behaviour.
The link is:

http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpaab4/cardsort2/cardsort_start.php?=%25SURVEY_CODE%25

Kind regards,
Imogen Thynne, Hannah Street, Avithaa Thayaparan, Sarah Cleaver, Alissa Burrows and Rachael Cornwell  :sign0203:

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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2017, 04:21:52 PM »
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Please don't forget to participate if you can! 

http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpaab4/cardsort2/cardsort_start.php

We would really, really appreciate your participation  :backflip:

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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2018, 01:51:45 AM »
I've not seen a project set up like this. I really liked the format.  It was actually interesting to see how different things can be over time.
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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2018, 09:11:29 AM »
Thank you so much for your feedback Lorien. This research has been done before face-to-face but never online, and we are getting some really great results so far.

Offline imogenamelia

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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2018, 11:47:36 PM »
We have had so may participants already for this study so far and i'm certain the results are looking very interesting! Although we still need a few more participants. Can anyone help us?  :happy020:

http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/lpaab4/cardsort2/cardsort_start.php

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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2018, 07:47:30 AM »
Hi, although I've never done one of these before, I completed it around a week ago. Hope it helps. It is quite an interesting thing. I may look into this a little more.
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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2018, 11:20:10 AM »
Thank you so much sniper, your participation is very much appreciated and extremely helpful.

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Re: The Card Sort Task for Self-harm: Understanding self-harm
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2018, 08:48:26 PM »
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