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<span style="font-size:8pt">(A</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">pologies if you get this more than once because I know you on additional email lists or social media)</span></div>
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I'm looking for adult UK residents who've experienced the death of their companion animal in the last couple of years. If you fulfil that criteria yourself, please click on the link below and complete the questionnaire. If you know one or more people who could
participate, please forward this email with the text below.</div>
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If you just want to look through the survey, that's fine, just email me your participant id (shown on every page) and I can delete your data.</div>
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Many thanks in advance !</div>
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kind regards</div>
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<span style="margin:0px">I am studying for an MA in Human-Animal Interaction with the Psychology department of Stirling University and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research project on Companion Animal Bereavement.</span><span style="margin:0px"> <br>
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">I am particularly looking for an even spread of male and female participants and across all small companion animals: rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, reptiles as well as cats and dogs. For this
research I will not include larger animals such as horses and pigs, or fish.<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">I have designed the questionnaire to be as concise as possible, concentrating on the level of attachment people feel for their pets, the grief they experience after the death and the support
they receive from their friends, family and others around that time. As well as the usual multiple- choice questions with scaled answers for quantitative analysis, I have included two long-answer questions to which I will apply a qualitative analysis. It should
take less than 20 minutes to complete.<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The survey has been approved by the General University Ethics Panel and the Animal Welfare Ethical Review Body and is to be completed by UK adults over the age of 18(Or Stirling students 16+)
who have had a pet die within the last two years, to cover the period before, during and after the pandemic.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
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I would like to complete data collection by the end of June so I would appreciate it if you could participate within the next couple of weeks. </p>
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<span style="margin:0px">I am available to answer any questions about the survey on<span> </span></span><a href="mailto:ajy00002@students.stir.ac.uk" style="margin:0px">ajy00002@students.stir.ac.uk</a><span style="margin:0px">.</span> <br>
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