{"id":5021,"date":"2013-05-24T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2013-06-24T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:01:13","slug":"looking-for-volunteers-age-50-to-participate-in-lift-research-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/looking-for-volunteers-age-50-to-participate-in-lift-research-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Volunteers Age 50+ to Participate in LIFT Research Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soulpittmedia.com\/images\/liftstudy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/strong> and <strong>Carnegie Mellon University<\/strong> are looking for <strong>volunteers to participate in LIFT<\/strong>, a research study designed to see how people\u2019s views of their past, present, and future well-being change over time and if this influences health and healthcare cost outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may qualify to participate in the study if:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are age 50 years or older.<\/li>\n<li>See any UPMC primary care provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you participate in LIFT you will <strong>complete a yearly questionnaire about your well-being and other aspects of your life. Participation will take about 1 hour each year.<\/strong> You can even complete your questionnaire over the internet. If you choose to complete your survey over the internet you can even save your progress and come back to it if interrupted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>$10 for each survey completed.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are no direct benefits to you for participating in LIFT. We hope the knowledge we gain in LIFT will help us better understand the relationship between well-being and health.<\/p>\n<p>There will be incentives offered for survey completion.\u00a0 For every one hundred participants that complete their surveys, those participants will be entered into a drawing for a <strong>$200 WePay card.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>$10 for each survey completed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We would love to hear from you! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please contact us at<strong> <a href=\"mailto:lift@pitt.edu\">lift@pitt.edu<\/a> or call at (412) 586-9849 or (412) 586-9796<\/strong> to answer any questions, for more information about our study, or to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>The LIFT Team<br \/>\n<strong>Stacey Dillon<\/strong> | Project Coordinator, <strong>412-586-9796<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Adelina Malito<\/strong> | Research Assistant, <strong>412-586-9849<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LIFT is funded by the National Institute of Health\u2019s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and National Institute on Aging<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are looking for volunteers to participate in LIFT, a research study designed to see how people\u2019s views of their past, present, and future well-being change over time and if this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/looking-for-volunteers-age-50-to-participate-in-lift-research-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 18:57:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}