Study4Moms 
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| 02/11/2010 6:20 PM |
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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. |
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Gkathy
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| 02/12/2010 9:33 AM |
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| Have you contacted any perinatal recovery programs? What about other recovery rehab programs? Often these programs will have a large alumni group that may be willing to help out. |
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~~~Anais Nin
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sweetcrumbs
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| 07/08/2011 12:32 AM |
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| I think it's best to go out and solicit participation personally so you can explain the importance of this research. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 5:51 PM |
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| Good luck. The samples of literature in all programs will provide a world of information. I wish you the best in helping little ones who can not speak or describe their pain. God bless. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 6:25 PM |
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| There are times when I'd like to think someone understood. Dr's. seem to know how to reach the core of problems. Granted noone knows recovery better than the 12 steps but the thought that Dr's are attentive matters in certain situatuins. A little baby born needs health care. This is not a doubt. Thank you for thinking we laymen of the twelve steps might be able to help such a worthy cause. We will all try. Not just for you but for our own content answers. The BB says when someone is suffering may the hand of AA always be there. Your question proves that the twelve steps can live up to the task. No easy task for Dr's or the people of programs. Our difficulties are all the same when reaching an infant. Silence is a tool of the spiritual awaiting to be be spoken in human words. Thats why the program works. If someone messes up everyone knows it then the solution can be made available as well. Its not a free program. Religion is almost required to survive. A religion of some sort. Unlike Dr's most of us do not study pain so if we were to really confront it we would need a Dr. a religious person, a shrink, and all things good. The program helps us handle these requirements. Good luck. Spiritual beings are no more or no less than that. If a scientientist can study for 12 years and still ask for help, laymen of a program can as well, and still be as dignified in our search. No one is perfect. No one just has an answer. Only the participants can help from any form. tudy the book. and books if there is an anser its in there. Thats a promise. But if not read don't blame me. I have as many feelings as any recordings of what feelings are. I try. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 6:37 PM |
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| I guess what I am saying is this. Recovery has figured out how to recover even when Dr's could not back in 39. There was no fanfare for this discovery. None what at all. Simply none. Poverty wasn't cured, legions of money apying followers weren't discovered and no medical advances were given to any particular group for discovering recovery. If the same program is asked to help out in other fields is asking too much to say that if there is further research necessary and the program is helpful fine, otherwise some sciences are asking to be quiet in their discovery and does not make any firther claims of knowledge. Can I be happ that someone did the impossible in 39? Can I appreciate that? Then I can preceed to speak iwth them. If not them perhaps I can just proceed to ask for more miracles since they are so easy to obtain. And perhaps I'll write a book. Everything this miracle did not do. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 7:03 PM |
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I am scared now that I have run my friends off. My point is this. I had a rough time as a kid. There is no easirer softer way. Not that I should but I will say that from a tot untill 12 I was beaten unmercifully. This may not qualify me to speak on behalf of children but I can relate. Then I was abondened and sent to another home. In this home I was left to do my will at twelve. Which meant dropping all responsibilities for me. Then at 14 I moved to foster care. That was cool because they could drop their feelings for me anytime they wanted to which meant if I was good o.k. but bad then I was a ward of the state. I worked my way up the ranks to AA. There they told me the truth. They didn't speak the truth as they saw it, they spoke the truth and I could learn it. It was no picnic. But it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Maybe I'm still trying to figure out what all happened. I am.
I am still trying to figure out what happened to me.
Why didn't anyone love me?
Sorry. I just never asked before. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 7:30 PM |
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| My parents never hit me. It was my grandmom. |
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Rachael25
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| 07/21/2011 8:14 PM |
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| My parents never hit me but with Grandmom I noticed she quit hitting people after the age of grownup. Later I figured it was 12. Well grand mom sent me to foster care. I am glad my siblings got off as well as they did, which required much help, but she decided to continue her wrath on me. So for the next umpteen years I was seperated from my family and my contact to home was nothing. She had won a war against a baby. All I wanted was home, she had adult plans. To my dismay. I saw her in a nursing home. She acted just like she always did, hello honey got anything for me. Its the greed of her that is unmeasurable. There are not words for her brutality, her selfish nature and if I could go back in time I'd realease my family and me from her and tell on her. She used our feelings to her own ends to the point I finally decided it was pitiful, incomprehensible, demoralization. I don't know where she is now. But mom and dad still live on many years from their end because they said so many wise things. I try to remember mom and dad. No life is perfect. But sometimes we all could use a little extra care. Thanks for letting me practice that here. |
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justme
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| 07/22/2011 10:45 AM |
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I too had taken my lumps as a kid; and for years held on to the anger and hate, as it justified my unacceptable behavior. Refusing to let go of those resentments had also led to defeat after defeat in the rooms of recovery.
What happened was I was given a choice. I could either hold onto the past, continue to use it as an excuse and continue to live a miserable existence, or I could forgive those that I felt offended me, accept my part, and move on. It really does not matter how or what got me here, the important thing is what I do now about it.
In practice, although hard at the the beginning, this became a pathway to peace. I have discovered that in spite of me and my insane behavior, God cared. Not only now that I am in recovery, but I can see in retrospect where His Hand has held me back from falling off the deep end. There are many times in my past I had been in places and situations where I should not have escaped, but I was spared, and through them He guided me to a point of willing surrender to the Sonlight of His Spirit
Today I see all that misery of the past in a different light. what was at one time a sentence of death and doom has become a platform of hope and encouragement, and those experiences are useful in helping others. What used to be a hopeless and despised drunk has been changed into a grateful and purposeful man, through Faith in my God, and the work of the steps of recovery. |
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Rachael25
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| 08/03/2011 7:13 PM |
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| Good Will Hunting is a good movie. Two scenerios are 1: how do you tell a person to go on living even though his spouse had to go away because of a disease and 2: how do you tell a youth they move forward even if it means leaving dear friends behind or forgetting someone? I think the words of support from someone and friends are stonger than anything we know. |
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Rachael25
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| 08/08/2011 10:38 PM |
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Just another thought for today leading toward recovery. The Gibbs wrote and sang a song. It sounds sadbut reflects the purists feelings of feelings though. It is not sorrow it is recovery when a person faces feelings. The Gibbs sang and thanked their friends for the solution in the words to a words to a song.
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a looser ever win?
Help me mend my broken heart,
and let me live again. |
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