Spinal Cord Injury Update
Summer 2008: Volume 17, Number 3
University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System
SCI Weight Management Study
You are invited……
…….to participate in a study examining how individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) lose weight or keep off the weight they have lost. To participate you must be 18 years or older and have SCI, but it does not matter what your weight is.
Participation in this study will involve completing a 30-minute one-time survey by mail or online.
You will be compensated for your time. Your survey responses will be strictly confidential and data from this research will be reported only in the aggregate. Your participation may help to shape weight management programs for individuals with SCI.
If you wish to participate or need more information, please call our study coordinator at
1-800-781-5857.
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Study Investigators
Barry Goldstein, MD, PhD
Suparna Rajan, PhD
Chuck Bombardier, PhD
Catherine Warms, PhD, ARNP
Frances Weaver, PhD