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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Drs. Marcella Smith and Alma Hernandez are inviting you to take part in a research study. Drs. Smith and Hernandez are Assistant Professors at Texas A&M University-Commerce
in the Department of Social Work. The purpose of this research is assess the psychological impact of covid-19. Even if you feel that, you probably will not benefit directly from participating in this study, your participation will be a valuable addition to
our research and findings could provide us with important information for intervention planning.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Participation is completely anonymous, which means that no one, not even the researchers will know what your answers are. We estimate that it will take
you approximately 10 minutes to complete the survey. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">If you are willing to participate in the study, simply click on the link below, or cut and paste the entire URL (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6LW5629">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6LW5629</a>)
into</span><span style="color:black"> your browser to access the online survey.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">If you have any questions please email us at
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:marcella.smith@tamuc.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">marcella.smith@tamuc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:black">
or at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:alma.hernandez@tamuc.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">alma.hernandez@tamuc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Marcella Smith, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Texas A&M University-Commerce</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Phone: 903-468-8727</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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