Briefing and Eligibility

Have you ever had an awful night out, and then to make things worse woken up with the most shocking hangover? Take 10 to 15 minutes to help us explore the possibility that psychosocial factors such as personality traits and feelings of guilt and shame, may actually be what determines how severe your hangover is. My name is Sumayyah Gohar (SGohar@uclan.ac.uk) and this study is designed for my MSc Health Psychology course under the supervision of Dr. Sarita Robinson (SJRobinson1@uclan ac.uk). Ethical approval for this study has been granted from the University of Central Lancashire. If you have any questions throughout your participation in this study, please feel free to get in contact with one of us. However, if you wish to contact someone outside of the research team, regarding any outstanding issues, then feel free to contact Lancashire University Officer for Ethics (OfficerForEthics@uclan.ac.uk). For this study, you must be 18 years old and over. So, if that isn’t you, then you can stop reading now. However, if you are, participation in this study will require you to complete a series of online questionnaires regarding your personal hangover experience. When answering the questions, try to keep in mind your most recent hangover experience. The questions will contain a combination of tick box and open-ended questions regarding, your alcohol intake, your drinking experiences and how they made you feel. You will be completing a personality trait questionnaire, and identifying the severity of your hangover symptoms. This data will be collected for analysis which will be able to determine whether psychosocial factors can determine hangover severity. Anonymity during the study will be maintained throughout, therefore you will not be required to register your name at any point. Due to this, the information you provide cannot be linked back to you and therefore withdrawing your information past submission will not be possible. Following this briefing you can decide whether you wish to take part or not. Participants can withdraw at any time before the questionnaires are completed and submitted. All questionnaires must be at least 50% completed, if not it cannot be considered. The questions are designed to solely investigate the research question and will not be used for any other purpose. Also, they are not intended to distress or offend at any point. However, if support is required following completion, a list of suitable contacts and support services will be provided in the debrief at the end of the survey. Please try to complete all the questions. Thank you for taking part.