UVic celebrates 1000th participant
This September, the University of Victoria (UVic) Data Collection Site marked a new milestone by reaching 1,000 participant visits.
“I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) to thank our participants. This accomplishment would not be possible without the individuals who have volunteered their time,” said Debra Sheets, site co-principal investigator and associate professor at University of Victoria.
“We have a dedicated and highly skilled team of in-home interviewers and data collection site staff, worked under the leadership of Lindsay Richier, our project coordinator, who have made this achievement possible only a year after our CLSA site opened,” said Lynne Young, site co-principal investigator and professor at the University of Victoria. “A special thank you also goes to the staff at the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria for their hard work and commitment.”
UVic houses one of the three CLSA data collection sites in British Columbia. Over the next two years, the site will welcome 2,000 additional participants.
The CLSA follows 50,000 men and women aged 45 to 85 for the next 20 years. Thirty thousand of the 50,000 CLSA participants take part in the study by visiting the data collection sites where they complete physical assessments as well provide information regarding their physical, emotional and social health functioning. This information will allow researchers to better understand the dynamic process of aging.
The remaining 20,000 participants take part in hour-long telephone interviews conducted from four centres across the country, including one at UVic. The UVic team has completed more than 3,500 telephone interviews.
