I'm a medical scientist and my days are spent doing learning and memory tests on kids that have been exposed to many substances (methamphetamine, alcohol, nicotine, opiates) during pregnancy. The work is sometimes sad but always meaningful. Some of the parents are willing to drive 3 hours each way to come to the lab for three hours in the hopes that we'll be able to help their kid which, frankly, we often can't. The long-term plan is to first describe what's going on with these children so that we can then design and test different interventions (educational or pharmacological) that would help them.
I'm trying to follow up some behavioral findings with an online study (ad posted below) which involves having folks spend 20-30 minutes filling out an online survey about their kids. The problem is, I'm not very successful at connecting with these parents.
Does anyone have any ideas (especially for online recruitment)? I've been getting rather creative bending the Craigslist multi-posting rules (ad below) but that hasn't been very productive (1-2 responses/post). My sample size is currently 34 but I'd like to get 100. Should the wording of the ad be changed? If so, how? Is the time commitment too long? If I could trim it down to say 50 items and it took only 10 minutes, would that help?
I'm open to any feedback!
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Do you have a child that is between the ages of five and eighteen? Are you interested in being part of the scientific process?
If yes, we need your help to further our understanding of the effects of prescription and recreational drug exposure during fetal development.
The anonymous survey takes approximately twenty min to finish and involves answering questions about the history and current behavior of your son or daughter.
The parents of children that were and also were not exposed to cigarettes, marijuana, opiates, alcohol, methamphetamine, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, or antipsychotics during early development are needed. Please click (or paste) the following link to begin the survey
https://octri.ohsu.edu/surveys/index.php?hash=c74d97b01eae257e44aa9d5bade97baf
Thank you in advance for your time!!
Brian J. Piper, Ph.D., piperb@ohsu.edu
The Oregon Health & Science IRB number is 5720. |