shailarao

From   : [email protected]

Subject: Invitation to Evaluate the South Asian Heart Health web pages

Dear Potential Participant,

My name is Shaila Rao and I am a Doctoral student in the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, New York.  I am doing this survey for my dissertation work. The study is to evaluate a Heart Health website developed for the South Asian community. To participate in the study, you must be (1) a South Asian woman , which means you can trace your heritage to South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, or  Sri Lanka)  and (2) be 25 years of age or older, and (3) living in the United States.

You are being asked to view the Heart Health web pages on the South Asian Health Project website (http://www.southasianhealth.org/yourhealth/HH/hearthealthmainpage.aspx). These pages have information related to eating and preparing healthier South Asian foods, exercise, raising heart healthy kids, and much more.  After viewing the pages, you will be asked to fill out a survey to tell us how feel about the website as well as your knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors related to preventing heart disease. You will be able to access the survey on the website. This survey will take approximately 25-30 minutes to complete. Your assistance will be extremely helpful in improving this site and making it more effective in reducing the risk of heart disease within the South Asian community.

After 200 people complete the survey, the computer program will automatically send out $100.00 Amazon gift certificates to three randomly chosen e-mail accounts without in any way linking your identity to the survey results.

Click the following link http://www.southasianhealth.org/yourhealth/HH/hearthealthmainpage.aspx  to browse the Heart Health pages (the starred * pages), view the informed consent, learn about your rights as a participant, and to proceed to the survey.

 February is American Heart Month and an important opportunity for South Asian women to discover how to reduce the risk of heart disease for themselves, their families, and their community.  If you know other South Asian women (friends, sisters, aunties, moms, co-workers), please forward this email to them so that they may also learn from the South Asian Heart Health pages and participate in this survey.

Thanks for your participation!

Shaila Rao

Doctoral Candidate, Department of Health and Behavior Studies

Teachers College, Columbia University

[email protected]