Risks of Participation
Participants may experience mild discomfort from brain stimulation treatment. A small percentage of users may experience dizziness, headache, or nausea. The side effects of brain pulse stimulation therapy are short-lived and are not known to cause any permanent damage. If participants feel unwell after completing the brain pulse stimulation treatment, please inform the staff and therapist.
Note: Patients who have had metal implants in the head, neck, or upper back, or who have had metal teeth/dental trays or pacemakers, should not receive brain stimulation.
Benefits of Participation
The investigators sincerely invite participants to participate in this study.
The valuable information participants provide will help us understand the effect of using magnetic fields to improve sleep quality in adults.
Voluntary Participation
Participation in our research is entirely voluntary and participants have the right to withdraw from research at any time. Participants' decision to participate in or withdraw from the study will not affect participants' existing treatment or services. The information participants provide will be kept strictly confidential and all information will be used for research purposes only.
Financial Costs
Participants will not be charged for the service. Study article will not be continued to be available to subjects after the study until it is commercially available.
Confidentiality of Information
Any information about participants obtained during the research process will be kept strictly confidential. Any information about participants that is released outside the hospital (e.g. in scientific literature or reports) will not have personally identifiable information about participants. Each study participant has the right to access their personal data and publicly reported study results if required, and participants' contact details will be reserved for future follow-up studies.
Personal data will be kept for 5 years after completion of study and publications to keep track on potential side effects related to the intervention. Data will be destroyed after completion of publications.
Under the laws of Hong Kong (especially the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, Cap. 486), participants have the right to keep participants' personal data confidential, such as the collection of personal data in or in connection with this research, Safeguard, retain, manage, control, use (analyze or compare), transfer within or outside Hong Kong, non-disclosure, erasure and/or deal within any way. If participants have any questions, participants can consult the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data or call its office (telephone number: 2827 2827) to properly supervise or monitor the protection of participants' personal data so that participants are fully aware and aware of ensuring compliance with the law to protect private data meaning.
By agreeing to participate in this study, participants expressly authorize:
To oversee this study, authorize the principal investigator and his research team and the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/ Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster to obtain, use and retain participants in the manner specified in this study and this informed consent, and
Authorize relevant government agencies (such as the Hong Kong Department of Health) to obtain participants' personal data to check and verify the integrity of the research data and assess the consistency of the research agreement with the relevant requirements.
Enquiries
This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/ Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster. If participants are willing to participate in the research, please sign the enclosed informed consent form and keep this fact sheet for reference.
The study was coordinated by Dr. Cheng Pak Wing, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.
For enquiries, please contact our Research Assistant at 9016 9487, or Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/ Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster at 2255 4086.
