14 November 2024
Title : FRIENDLY REMINDER! Projet PartageS : Collaborative practices related to work and schedules of direct service to students school staff
Principal Investigator : Mélanie Lefrançois. Ph.D., Professor, ESG UQAM
Funding Agency : Fonds québécois de recherche Société et Culture
REMINDER! You have until 5pm on 18 November 2024 to take part in the survey!
To take part, send an email to d94.eastern.shores@lacsq.org
Research objectives
We invite you to participate in a research project. Its aim is to identify collaborative practices related to the management of working time for direct service to student school staff (SSDSS). The project also aims to assess the effects of the practices on job satisfaction, sense of belonging, commitment and the physical and mental well-being of SSDSS, and to understand the conditions that need to be put in place for the practices to succeed. A secondary objective of the project is to validate the adaptation of Bergen’s Atypical Work Schedule and Sleep Questionnaire for “fragmented”, early morning, irregular and unpredictable schedules. This instrument assesses the presence of insomnia and sleepiness in relation to work schedules. There is currently no validation of this questionnaire for these types of schedules.
To take part, we ask you to answer an online questionnaire. It will take about 25 minutes. The questions concern your schedule, the presence of collaboration in your school, and various other aspects of your satisfaction and your quality of life at work.
Your participation is voluntary
You are free to answer only some of the questions. However, the research team will be able to produce a more valid picture if you answer all the questions.
Compensation
To thank you for taking the time to answer all the questions, we’re raffling off ten $100 grocery gift cards among the fully-completed questionnaires (about 1 in 150 chances of winning). Winners will receive an electronic gift card by e-mail.
Your participation is anonymous
It will not be possible at all to know the identity of the people who completed the questionnaire, as the e-mail addresses for the draw will be compiled in a database separate from the survey responses. The data will be processed and securely destroyed 5 years after the end of the project.
Questions about the research?
If you have any questions about this research, please contact Mélanie Lefrançois at (514) 987-3000 ext. 8386 or by e-mail at partages@uqam.ca
Questions about your rights ?
This project has been approved by the Institutional Human Research Ethics Committee (CIEREH), (certificate no.: 2025-7213). If you have any questions about your rights, you can contact CIEREH at (514) 987-3000 poste 7753 or by email: ciereh@uqam.ca.
Your collaboration in this project is essential, and the research team would like to thank you!
Mélanie Lefrançois, Ph.D., Karen Messing, Ph.D., Hélène Sultan-Taïeb, Ph.D., Laurence Tchuidibi, Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal; Marie Laberge, Ph. D., Université de Montréal, Annie Vallière, Ph.D., Marie-Eve Major, Ph.D. Université Laval; Jean-François Labonté, SEPB-Québec (FTQ); Jacinthe Leduc, FEESP-CSN; Annick Gosselin, FPSS-CSQ; Isabelle Mahar, CPSS-SCFP (FTQ); Julie Raby, Services aux collectivités [community outreach service], Université du Québec à Montréal