What would induce you to participate?

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  1. Which incentive would you sacrifice two hours of your time for?

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      Five-dollar Starbucks gift-certificate
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      A chance in a draw for an iPad mini with cellular/Wi-fi capability

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Hello Nursing students,

I am doing a master's thesis in nursing education. My study would entail students learning basic ECG interpretation, then being randomly assigned to one of two groups for practice, then writing a test. This would take about two hours of students' time. I know this is asking a lot, so I am offering an incentive to participate.

My question is, what would you consider the more attractive incentive: A five-dollar Starbucks gift certificate, or a chance in a draw for an iPad mini with cellular and Wi-fi capability?

Thank you!

Thanks, datalore. I am not sure Ethics at my university would allow profs to promote participation. I know participants would like to know their results, but I expect that the results will be affected by how the practice is organized. I would not want people to feel inadequate if their scores are a function of their group allocation, and not their ability. I would happily give people the group scores, not individual scores. I am also hoping that some might find value in the learning experience, and be inspired to learn more about ECG interpretation.

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Maybe a $5 gift cards.com or AMEX gift card or chance to win a $50 Amex card. I think the educational experience would be enough but I'm a nerd. Id be happy with a free copy of the "flip & see ECG" book less chance of bias for an unrelated incentive. ( or a chance to receive the book)

I am hopeful that there are more like you who would find some value in the educational experience alone.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Promote it as "help research, free ECG interpretation class for nursing students!" Chance to win one of (#) copies of flip-and-see ECG guide (or other reference book) relevant. Then you can improve chances of students participating willingly and have an incentive related to the subject instead of broke college students signing up for $5 or an iPad mini. I think incentive should be related to the academic study...

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iPad mini. With all the time nursing school takes up on top of working full time, I would want the prize to be worth my while.

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That is what I thought. I hope to recruit 64 people, so each would have a 1 in 64 chance of winning. I hope that those odds would be enough to attract people.

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