WELCOME TO THE STUDY

The test is for a project at University of Sussex and will take approximately 25 minutes. You'll be asked questions about how you react to the environment around you and the emotions you feel. You’ll also answer questions about your abilities, and do 3 quick tests looking at words and shapes. Note that some of the questionnaires you will see are designed with younger audiences in mind.

University of Sussex students who participate via SONA will be asked for their university email address. This is so we can link up your results if you complete more SONA studies on this topic run by our lab in future. 

Please check this box to show you understand our ethical code below and consent to taking part

OUR ETHICAL CODE Click if you need to make text bigger

The purpose of our research is to advance knowledge of sensory sensitivities and other mental processes, so we will process your personal information and test responses to that end. Your decision whether to take part is voluntary and you can stop and withdraw at any point during the study without giving a reason (although it won't be practically possible to withdraw your data once you have finished and submitted the test). You can skip any question you don't want to answer. Your personal information will be handled in accordance with UK data protection legislation, subject to legal limitations. We will store your identity and data securely in a password-protected file on a University server, and will not reveal them to any third party outside the research group, without your written permission. From time to time we also re-contact certain people to take part in further studies, but participation is entirely voluntary and you are under no obligation to take part further. Your personal information (eg. email) will remain entirely confidential. In any scientific reports resulting from this research (eg. for research degree) or in any data repositories for other researchers, data is published anonymously/ statistically. This research program is ongoing and your data will be held until it is no longer scientifically valuable or cannot reasonably be maintained. This research has been approved by the Sussex SciTec Ethics Committee (C-REC: ref = ER/LR290/3). University of Sussex has insurance in place to cover its legal liabilities in respect of this study. If you have any ethical concerns, please email the project supervisor (j.simner@sussex.ac.uk) or ethics chair (crecscitecchair@sussex.ac.uk). Contact details of our Data Protection Officer, along with your rights in respect of processing, are found here [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ogs/policies/information/dpa/privacynotice]. When the test is done, you will be able to judge whether you have sensory sensitivies and your details will enter into our secure database. You can print this screen for your records. Components of this test are copyright to Simner 2016 and Simner/Rinaldi 2020. You must be over 18 years to consent. University of Sussex has insurance in place to cover its legal liabilities in respect of this study.

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