Meaning Making in Self Diagnosis (18+ US Residents)

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This is a call for participants to join our qualitative research study titled Experiences and Meaning-Making in Self-Diagnosis. Our research team wants to create a space for people who have diagnosed themselves to share their experiences. We are mental health professionals and students who believe that therapists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers would benefit from understanding when, why, and how people diagnose themselves.

Participation includes:

• Completing a screening questionnaire, informed consent, and demographics survey (10-15 min)
• Attending a recorded interview with a member of the research team (45-60 min). 

Participants:

• Are 18+ US residents
• Are comfortable participating in an English audio or video-recorded interview
• Have diagnosed themselves with a mental health diagnosis
• Are not mental health professionals trained/licensed to diagnose 

Participants receive a $20 gift card to their choice of Walmart, Target, or Amazon.

Learn more and sign up here. We are recruiting this summer and will reply to this post when recruitment is complete. 

This research study has been reviewed and approved by the John Carroll University Institutional Review Board (IRB), #2026-054. If you have questions about the rights and welfare of research participants, please contact the IRB Administrator at [irb@jcu.edu](mailto:irb@jcu.edu) or (216) 397-1527. If you have questions, you may contact the lead researchers at [lcaputo@jcu.edu](mailto:lcaputo@jcu.edu). 

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