Brigette Parsons
Founder and Executive Director, Saving Grace K9s

Sarah Paschall
Psychedelic Researcher, Quantified Citizen

Maggie Kiraga
Director of Research, Quantified Citizen

Who is this study for?
Military veterans around the globe who have been in combat and who have been diagnosed or self-diagnosed with PTSD symptoms.

What will I be asked to do?
Upon agreeing to and submitting the informed consent you will be enrolled into the study. As a participant you will be asked to share information about your medical and substance use histories including past experiences and the line of military you served. Questions in regard to your mental health will also be asked as well as your experience with various therapies including rating their success in alleviating your symptoms. Lastly, you will be given the option to stay enrolled in the study to provide ongoing monthly updates related to your mental health and associated therapies, if you so choose.

Will I be able to connect to wearable data?
You will have the option to connect data from your wearable device: step count, heart rate variability, sleep, and active energy burned.

How much time will I need to commit to this study?
You will get the chance to choose one of two study versions. The shorter option includes retrospective surveys at a single assessment timepoint (about 20 minutes to complete). The longer version, starts with the short version and additionally asks for  monthly updates (up to 3 months) on your symptoms and treatment progress (about 7 minutes per month). 

How will I benefit?
Following your participation, you will receive a personalized report summarizing insights from your data (currently in development). With the data from this study, you will be actively helping shape the future of PTSD treatment options which may assist in improving these options for people like you to combat the severity of their PTSD symptoms.

All information obtained during the study will be entirely anonymous. All digital data collection will be self-administered. You will get a unique, randomly generated username and your identity will remain anonymous. Please write down this username and keep it in a secure location. You will need it to login into the app should you lose your phone as well as to access your individual data summary and aggregated data. If for any reason you no longer have access to your QC account, and you do not remember your username, QC will not be able to regenerate your account.

You will never be asked to provide your real name, address, or date of birth. Averaged group data may be published or publicly presented, but it will not be possible to identify individual participants from this data. The Quantified Citizen app will not have access to any of your personal identifying information. Quantified Citizen will only access IP addresses from server logs for security and quality control and will delete them every 48 hours to limit indirect identifiers. Only authorized QC staff can access server logs based on their role and a need-to-know basis in order to fulfill their duties. IP addresses are not included in the data that will be analyzed in this study.

All of the data you enter into the Quantified Citizen app will be encrypted and stored in perpetuity on servers located in Canada. Anonymous data will be accessible to all researchers involved with this study. The data may be accessible to other researchers in the future. Any data you have previously entered into the app regarding the microdosing study will be used in addition to any data you enter in the future.

Data will be kept for 5 years following publication of the research at which point the data on the external hard drive and university’s server will be wiped clean.