Human exposure to veterinary products

* The NSW Poisons Information Centre provides advice on human poisoning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The University of Sydney, in conjunction with the New South Wales (NSW) Poisons Information Centre is currently conducting a study on human exposure to veterinary products.  This study aims to use a web-based questionnaire survey, emailed to veterinary practice email addresses obtained with the permission of the Veterinary Practitioner’s Board of New South Wales (VPB NSW), in order to gather data regarding (i) any instances of veterinary practice staff exposure to veterinary products within the previous 6 months, and (ii) whether any members of the general public had contacted the practice due to exposure to veterinary products within the previous 6 months. Such data will allow us to quantify any under-reporting of human exposure to veterinary products reported to the Poisons Information Centre by comparison to previously collated figures, to help structure future prospective studies. 

Participation in this study is voluntary and any responses you provide will be strictly confidential and anonymous.  
It should only take 5 minutes to complete.  There is no further commitment required.

Instructions:
Please select 1 response unless otherwise specified.  For "other" responses please specify in free text.  

This research is conducted as part of a MD project of the Medicine Program at the University of Sydney and has been initiated by the student researcher, Sarah Bestwick.
If you have any questions about the study or would like more information please contact Professor Nicholas Buckley: nicholas.buckley@sydney.edu.au. 

There will be no direct benefit to you from your participation in this research.  There may be benefit to members of society in the future including veterinarians, pet owners and farmers.  This may include changes to reporting of human exposures to veterinary drugs or improved use of the NSW PIC to improve outcomes for affected persons. 

Following collection using surveymonkey surveying tool data will be transferred to a secure server, Research Data Store (RDS) at the University of Sydney. This is a dedicated data server that allows data access restrictions to be set up and maintained by the study lead and includes provisions for total data deletions as required by HREC. Data will be destroyed after 7 years.  Your responses will only be used for the purpose of this research project and it will only be disclosed with your permission, except as required by law.

This project has been approved by Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Human Research Ethics Committee.  If you have any concerns about the conduct of this study, please do not hesitate to contact the Executive Officer of the Ethics Committee (02 9845 3066) and quote approval number: LNR/18/SCHN/436.

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Lifeline: 131114; http://www.lifeline.org.au/
beyondblue: 1300 22 4636; http://www.beyondblue.org.au/

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