Dear Fair Shares members and past members,
Jacqueline Price, a Saint Louis University dietetic intern and graduate student, is inviting you to participate in a study aimed at identifying the motivations of CSA participants and their satisfaction with CSA programs. Responses from members (or former members) like you will help provide me with information that will be helpful in maintaining a quality CSA program and helping to grow the local food movement in Saint Louis.
Your participation will involve completing an online survey, to which a link can be found below. This survey is estimated to take approximately 20 minutes to complete, asking questions regarding your reasons for joining a CSA, expectations of the CSA, level of satisfaction with the CSA, and other questions that will allow us to better understand and serve your needs as a CSA member. Your participation in this study will be anonymous, though the information you provide will benefit Fair Shares so that we can continue to improve our programs.
Thank you for your participation!
The Fair Shares Team
P.S. Please see the fine print below:
Recruitment Statement for Research Participation
Jacqueline Price, Saint Louis University dietetic intern, is inviting you to participate in
this research study. The title of this study is Motivations for CSA Participants in Saint
Louis. The purpose of this study is to identify the motivations of Saint Louisans for
maintaining or discontinuing membership in CSA programs and their satisfaction with
the CSA program to which they belong or used to belong. The responses from
participants will provide CSA program directors with information about their members
that will be valuable in marketing to future members and maintaining satisfaction of
current members, allowing the local food movement in Saint Louis to continue to grow.
Your participation in this study will involve completing an online survey. This survey is
estimated to take approximately 20 minutes to complete, asking questions regarding your
reasons for joining a CSA, expectations of the CSA, level of satisfaction with the CSA,
and other questions that will allow CSA program directors to better understand and serve
the needs of CSA members.
The risks to you as a participant are minimal. These include minimal risk of loss of
confidentiality. In order to prevent this, survey responses will be collected anonymously
and the researchers will not have access to the email addresses or contact information of
The results of this study may be published in scientific research journals or presented at
professional conferences and will be distributed to CSA directors. However, your name
and identity will not be revealed and your record will remain anonymous. In order to
protect anonymity, survey responses will be collected anonymously and the researchers
will not have access to the email addresses or contact information of participants.
There may be no direct benefit to you for participation in this study. However,
participation in this study may benefit you by providing feedback to the director of the
CSA program you belong to or did belong to, allowing them to better understand your
motivations and preferences as a CSA member so that the program can be improved to
better meet your desires.
You can choose not to participate. If you decide not to participate, there will not be a
penalty to you or loss of any benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. You may
withdraw from this study at any time.
If you have questions about this research study, you can call Jacqueline Price at (240)
723-0887. If you have questions about your rights as a research participant, you can call
the Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board at 314-977- 7744 and reference
IRB #26639.