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Welcome to Biostartup Advice!

We invite women life scientists to participate in a research study of online simulations that were created to increase their interest in starting a business. We need your help to get the study ready by briefly trying the simulation and reviewing the assessments.

Your participation will take a total of around 45 minutes. You will receive an honorarium to acknowledge the value of your time, in the form of a $30 Amazon gift card or donation to a food bank.

Interested? Sign up here to begin, or read more in the “Agreement to Participate” below.

Welcome to Biostartup Advice!

We invite women life scientists to participate in a research study of online simulations that were created to increase their interest in starting a business. We need your help evaluating the simulations by using the simulations and completing assessments beforehand and aftwerward.

Your participation will take around an hour and 15 minutes. You will receive an honorarium to acknowledge the value of your time, in the form of an Amazon gift card or a donation to a food bank. The honorarium of $60 will be given after completing the pre- surveys, intervention, and post surveys, and another $15 for completing the post- surveys 2 weeks later.

Interested? Sign up here to begin, or read more in the “Agreement to Participate” below


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About the Evaluation and the Project

Purpose: To evaluate study assessments prior to the main study for clarity of instructions and questions, effective integration with the simulations, and ease of use of the study experience.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria:

To be included in this study, you must:

  • Be a woman.
  • Be a life scientist, student, or trainee in the life sciences with at least three years of college completed.
  • Have access to a computer with internet connectivity.
  • Be a US resident.

Participants will be excluded from the study if they:

  • Have a physical inability to use the electronic device being used in testing.
  • Have a physical inability to view the simulations.

Time involved: The intervention plus the assessments take around 40 minutes. We ask that you review two simulations for 10 minutes each and complete pre-assessments (5 minutes) and post-assessments (15 minutes). We ask that you complete the post-assessments within 24 hours of reviewing the simulation.

Questions asked: The assessments ask questions about your science background, business experience, business confidence, interest in entrepreneurship, and plans to start a business.

Privacy: We will not associate your name or other identifying information with your completed forms or data and thus there will be no identifying information in any written reports or publications that result from this project. Your participation will be strictly confidential.

No information is provided to your school, employer, or business associate, and no responses you provide to us will be reported to anyone anywhere, except in the aggregate. Read more about our privacy practices here.

Benefits:  A better understanding of the early stages of what it is like to start a business, the benefits and challenges, and the steps involved. Potentially, inspiration to try starting a business.
Risks: There are no known risks.

Compensation:

  • Honorarium: $25 Amazon gift card or food bank donation, to be issued at the end of the study. 
  • Bonus Referral: You may also be issued up to $20 total for referrals ($5 per referral who completes this study, up to 4 referrals). 
  • Participation and Data: Your participation is voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time. All survey submissions are kept confidential.

Funding:

  • Development was funded by grants #’s 1R43 GM131458-01 & 2R GM131458-02) from the National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
  • Reviewed by the Clinical Tools Institutional Review Board and determined to be exempt and expedited; IRB approval number 2020/001.

Questions? Please contact Karen Rossie rossie@clinicaltools.com, Maripat Metcalf metcalf@clinicaltools.com, or Brad Tanner tanner@clinicaltools.com. If you have questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact Mary Metcalf for the Clinical Tools IRB at metcalf@clinicaltools.com.

An account will be created for you once you submit this form. You will be immediately assigned a unique username and password. Note that this account is not associated with your name and your personal email is not your account username.

Please look for your account information in your email inbox or spam folder.

Thank You For Your Interest!

Enrollment for this study is currently paused, please check back later.







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This project is funded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (Grants 1R43 GM131458-01 & 2R GM131458-02)


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