A group of physical therapy doctoral students is recruiting participants 18 years of age or older with chronic low-back pain lasting longer than three consecutive months. The study will physical therapists understand and treat chronic low-back pain in a technological age using at-home therapy services.

If chosen to participate and are placed in the experimental group, subjects will complete an eight-week home exercise program that will be monitored via e-mail. The exercise program will not require external resistance, such as weights and resistance bands. Participants will fill out one questionnaire prior to starting the program and three questionnaires eight weeks later. If placed in the control group, participants will complete a survey at the beginning of the program and two surveys eight weeks later.

Participation is graciously appreciated, voluntary, and your responses will remain confidential. If you have questions or concerns, please email Austin Foley at amfoley1@shockers.wichita.edu.

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The Behavioral Economics Laboratory at Wichita State University is recruiting participants. Register today at orsee.wichita.edu.

  • Unconditional $5 show-up fee: If you show up at the lab at the scheduled time, you earn guaranteed $5.
  • On average, $15-20 per hour: Your earning from the games will vary, and it is based on participants’ decisions. On average, students earn $15-20 per hour.
  • Learn behavioral science and contribute to university research: Behavioral economic games were initially used by Nobel Prize laureate Vernon Smith for educational and research purpose. You can help Wichita State professors and students publish their research in high-quality academic journals.

A group of physical therapy doctoral students are recruiting participants aged 65 and older for a home exercise research study to improve balance and walking speed. Participation in this study may help the field of physical therapy understand better methods to improve balance and walking speed using home exercise programs.

If chosen to participate in the eight-week study, subjects will exercise in the comfort of their own homes and will be given step-by-step instructions on the exercises, which will take approximately 20 to 30 minutes per day. Participants will need to recruit pre- and post-program results. It will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating, please click on the link below to complete a survey. Once you have completed the survey, you will receive an email with further information within five to seven business days.

Your participation is graciously appreciated, voluntary, and your responses will remain confidential. Should you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email Bryce Isaac at bdisaac@shockers.wichita.edu.

Graduate students from the Human Factors Psychology Department are requesting volunteers for a study is to assess the impact of a varying number of false medical alarms on the stress, performance and mental workload of an operator, while engaged in another task. The study will take place at McKinley Hall (room 102).

Procedures

During this study, the subject will perform two tasks simultaneously:

  • The first task will involve monitoring a stream of alarms – responding to only the true alarms while ignoring the false alarms.
  • The second task will consist of an N-back task (a continuous performance task that is commonly used as an assessment in psychology and cognitive neuroscience to measure a part of working memory and working memory capacity).
  • Data will be collected regarding the subject’s performance of, and mental work during, the completion of the two tasks.

Time

  • Approximately 60 minutes.

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants must be age 18 years or older.
  • Subjects must have normal or corrected to normal vision
  • Subjects must have normal or corrected to normal hearing
  • Subjects must be fluent in English.

Participants will receive four SONA credits

For more information, or to participate in this study,  contact Dr. Carryl Baldwin or Shivani Nagrecha at 316-368-1671, or email svnagrecha@shockers.wichita.edu.

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The Department of Human Performance Studies-Exercise Science, in collaboration with the Department of Psychology-Clinical Psychology, is seeking volunteers for a study. The study will focus on the accuracy of reaction time and cognitive function tests in comparison with traditional tests widely accepted and used in a clinical and sport setting.

The procedures will include a study of participants’ reaction time, cognitive function and balance. These will then be assessed with different mobile device applications, a computer-based test and traditional paper tests. Three to five minute breaks will be allowed between tests. Participation will include a one-time, two-hour and 30-minute session. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria:

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants must be age 18 or older
  • No known muscular disorders
  • No known neurocognitive disorders
  • No known orthopedic disorders
  • No known balance disorders
  • No uncorrected vision
    – Eyeglass and contact wearers are welcome

The study will be conducted at the Heskett Center Human Performance Lab (Room 210). For more information, contact Dr. Heidi Bell at 316-393-3339, or email heidi.bell@wichita.edu.

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The NASA Kansas Space Grant Consortium (KSGC) Teacher Workshop Program is currently accepting proposals for KSGC affiliated middle-school teachers. The KSGC supports the development and implementation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educator workshops. NASA is especially interested in helping teachers bring NASA-relevant material and content into middle-school classrooms. 

Three awards worth about $50,000 each are anticipated (smaller proposals are also welcome) with a $0.50 match requirement for every NASA dollar awarded. All proposal submissions are due Aug. 30.

For more information, contact nasainkansas@wichita.edu.

A student in the department of communication sciences and disorders is looking for participants in a comparison study of skilled strategies used with bilingual adolescents between school-based and non-school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The study is under the direction of Dr. Karissa Marble-Flint and Dr. Douglas Parham.

If interested, contact Laura Santos or Dr. Marble-Flint or call 316-978-6356.

Volunteers 65 years old and above are requested for a fall-risk monitoring study May 10-28 at Donald L. Beggs Hall (main lobby). The study is part of a research project funded by the Regional Institute on Aging. The purpose is to develop a wireless and flexible skin-wearable electronic device with motion sensors to identify the fall risk of older adults.

Procedures

  • The research team will help participants to put the fall risk monitoring device onto the skin.
  • Each participant will be instructed to conduct five types of different daily activities (sitting, standing, lying, walking, climbing stairs, and running) as well as three types of falls (forward, backward and lateral falls).

Time

  • This device test is expected to last about 60 minutes for fall risk monitoring and 30 minutes for additional education or paper works.
  • The fall-risk monitoring test will be conducted between May 10-28.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

  • Participants must be age 65 years or older.
  • Participants should be able to stand up from a seated position and lay down from a standing position repeatedly at least 10 times and also walk, run, walk upstairs, and walk downstairs continuously at least for five minutes for each activity.
  • Participants should not have mobility or activity difficulty.
  • Participants should not have severe visual impairment and hearing loss problems.
  • Participants should not have cognitive impairment.

Participants will receive $100 Greenphire ClinCard for their participation. You can use the ClinCard at an ATM or like a debit card. Participants must have a valid Social Security Number to participate and to receive the payment.

If you are interested in participating in this study, please email Dr. Yongkuk Lee at yongkuk.lee@wichita.edu, or call 316- 978-7670.

Recordings of previous WSU Office of Research workshops can be found at www.wichita.edu/researchworkshops.

For example, if you missed the K-State University webinar on the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate, the zoom link and password for this presentation is listed on our WSU Research Workshop webpage.

Other recorded presentations include: Introduction to the Research Office, Institutional Review Board, Data Security, Internal Funding through the Faculty Support Committee, and applying to National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF).

Please email proposals@wichita.edu if you have any difficulty accessing the previous recordings.

A doctoral student in communication sciences and disorders is conducting a study on comparison of an existing and a newly developed clinical technique for evaluating function of the middle ear. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35, have normal hearing, have not had an ear infection in the past three months, nor had a cold or flu in the past two weeks. Participants will receive a no-cost comprehensive hearing evaluation and ear examination prior to testing. The testing will take about one hour in Room 106 Hubbard Hall. We have implemented a virus protection plan following university guidelines. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Kara Barrus at 316-650-5329, or Dr. Xiao-Ming Sun at Xiao-Ming.Sun@wichita.edu Sidebar Content