The CAM lab maintains an older adult participant pool that is comprised of older adults from the immediate and surrounding communities of Stony Brook who have expressed an interest in participating in research studies. If you are interested in accessing the SBU Department of Psychology Older Adult Participant Pool for your own studies, please read the guidelines below.
IRB Approval This pool is considered a recruitment source, and we do not make referrals of potential participants to studies. If you’d like to recruit from the SBU Department of Psychology Older Adult Participant pool you will need to receive approval from the IRB to use the “Stony Brook University Department of Psychology Older Adult Participant pool” as a recruitment source. Once you have been approved by the IRB to recruit from this source, we will send you a list of potential participants that fit the criteria you specified.
Contacting PotentialParticipants Once you have approval through your IRB, we will send you potential subjects in small batches.
Registrants that you wish to recruit can be contacted by phone and/or email as contact information and IRB approval allow.
A sample phone script that can be submitted for IRB approval for contacting potential participants can be found HERE. An example of an email script for contacting potential participants can be found HERE.
Google Form Please Complete THIS form to submit your recruitment parameters. Once we have this information, we will send a batch of potential participants to you.
Once you are finished with a batch, you will return the list (with general notes about the contact such as a disconnected phone number, prolonged period of unavailability for in-person research, and the like). Once each list is returned to us, we will send you another batch until you have reached your desired number of participants (or when we have exhausted all participants on our registry that appear to meet some basic eligibility criteria, such as age and/or biological sex).
Summary:
Receive approval through the IRB to use the "Stony Brook University Department of Psychology Older Adult Participant Pool" as a recruitment source and approved language for initial phone/email contact.
Complete the google form to specify your recruitment parameters and IRB approval letter.
Receive lists of potential participants from the Department of Psychology Older Adult Participant Pool registry. Return each list as you have completed/have been unable to make contact and receive a new list of potential participants from us. Repeat as needed.
If you would like more information on this recruitment source, please reach out to the CAM Lab PI, Lauren Richmond.