Information and Consent Form
Title of the Research Project
Water, diversity and immigration: Study on young immigrants’ (14-17 years) beliefs on tap water consumption
Principal Investigator:
Dominique Beaulieu, RN, PhD (community health), Professor in the Department of Health Sciences (DHS), Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) - Campus de Lévis.
Co-investigators:
- Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, PhD (nutrition), Adjunct Professor in the DHS, UQAR - Campus de Lévis
- Simone Lemieux, RD, PhD (nutrition), Professor in the School of Nutrition, Université Laval
Collaborators:
- Jalila Mafhoum, RN, MS, Collectif Vital
- Marie-Claude Paquette, RD, PhD, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
- Adam El Kotel, Immigrant student partner
Anonymity Measures:
The following measures will be applied to ensure that the information you provide remains anonymous:
- Data will be collected confidentially.
- At the end of the questionnaire, you will be asked to give your contact information in another form to send you the electronic $20 gift card for a sports store (Decathlon). Your contact information will not be associated with your responses to this questionnaire. Also, they will be deleted no later than three months after the end of the study.
- Your name will not appear on any documents.
- Your answers will never be shared with others.
- All electronic documents of this study will be kept on the password-protected computer of the principal investigator for seven years and be destroyed afterwards.
- The results will be published in a scientific journal and presented at scientific meetings, but it will not be possible to identify any participant.
Participant Consent
If you decide to participate in this study, this means that you freely agree to participate according to the conditions mentioned in this document. You also free to withdraw at any time without prejudice and without to justify your decision.
If you have any questions about this project, you can contact the main investigator: Dominique Beaulieu, by telephone 418-833-8800 extension 3349 or by email: Dominique_Beaulieu@uqar.ca
For any ethical questions regarding your participation in this research project, you can contact the Research Ethics Committee of Université du Québec à Rimouski by email: cer@uqar.ca
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