Thank you for your interest in our study, before you continue, here is some information about the study to help you decide if you would like to take part.


What will the study involve?
This study is comparing different types of relaxing home-based activities to assess how effective they are. If you decide to take part, you will be randomly assigned to take part in one of three types of activities. We will ask you for your contact details here and will then post you a pack containing an activity for you to do in your own home. This should take approximately 20 minutes to do. You will be invited to do this in your own time and answer some questions online immediately before and afterwards. We anticipate the whole session will take around 30-40 minutes.

Research designs often require that the full intent of the study not be explained prior to participation. Although we have described the general nature of the tasks that you will be asked to perform, the full details of the study (including what the other two activities are and our precise hypotheses) will be explained to you on completion of the study.


Are there any risks or benefits to taking part?
There are no risks to taking part in this study. You can choose to stop at any point. If you do complete the study, we will enter you into a prize draw to win a £50 gift voucher.


What will happen to my data?
The data you provide will be analysed by academic researchers at University College London. All the information that we collect about you during the course of the research will be kept strictly confidential. Your contact details will be just used to send you the study details and to enter you into the prize draw. Your responses to the study questions will be anonymous. We will look to publish findings in a scientific journal. But you will not be able to be identified in any ensuing reports or publications. The data collected by this experiment will potentially be of enormous benefit to scientific research.


Who has reviewed this study?
This study has been reviewed by the ethics committee at University College London.


Contact for further information
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact sai.solanki.17@ucl.ac.uk.