Guest guest Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Subject: Call for parents of ASD children to participate in survey and chance to win $50 gift certificate My name is Warter and I am both a Ph.D. candidate in Counseling Psychology at Boston College as well as a parent of an autistic child. Your listserv or support group has agreed to send this message on my behalf. I am currently completing my dissertation research on the experiences of families of children diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), under the direction of Walsh, Ph.D. I am writing to this group to ask for your participation in my online research survey and to offer you an opportunity to be entered into a random drawing for one of ten $50 gift certificates from either WaWa, Amazon.com, Target or Wal-Mart. The experience of caring for a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been related to a number of individual outcomes, both positive and negative, for caretakers and siblings. However, the relationship between experiences related to a child’s ASD, parents’ view of their world and their ASD-related experiences, and family outcomes has not been well studied. My research is an attempt to further our understanding of family’s experiences with autism. I hope that information gained from this study may help inform family-focused interventions and treatment with families of children diagnosed with an ASD. I am asking parents of a child diagnosed with an ASD to consider participating in this study. You are eligible to participate if you are at least 18 years of age and have a child over the age of two who has been diagnosed with one of three types of ASDs: Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD-NOS), Autism, or Asperger’s Syndrome (AS). Your survey responses are entirely anonymous. Any name and email address information you choose to provide will not be tied in any way to your responses. This information will only be used for the drawing and will be completely destroyed once the drawing is completed. Your identifying information will not be used in any other way except that which has already been stated. In the survey you will be asked some questions about your satisfaction with your family’s quality of life; your general views of the world and specific views regarding your child’s ASD; and your child’s behaviors and aspects related to his/her diagnosis; and some questions about yourself and your child, including such information as age, race/ethnicity, and gender, as well as amount of, and satisfaction with, your child’s current services. The survey takes approximately 35-40 minutes to complete and can be found online at: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=124732. Alternatively, you can go to http://www.psychdata.com and in the box that states “Go to Survey #” and type “124732”. At the completion of the survey, you can also choose to participate in a drawing for 1 of 10 $50 gift certificates to your choice of WaWa, Amazon.com, Target, or Wal-Mart, drawn at random from the participants who complete the survey. While this survey is open to all parents, thus both mothers and fathers are encouraged to participate, please complete only one survey per person. If you have questions about the study, I can be contacted by email at hilled@... or by phone at to answer any questions. You may also contact Dr. Walsh by phone at or email at walshhur@.... If at any time you have questions or concerns about your rights as a participant in a research study, please contact the Boston College Office for Human Research Participant Protection at . If you would like to receive a copy of the results of this study, please email me at the below address. Results will be distributed at the conclusion of the study. Thank you for your consideration! Warter, M.A. Boston College hilled@... Walsh, Ph.D. 150 Commonwealth Avenue Campion Hall Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 walshhur@... Subject: Prior Research Request To: asa_lehighvalley@... Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 10:03 PM Dear Sheri, My name is Warter and I talked with you earlier this summer about my dissertation research, entitled " Promoting resiliency in families of individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder: The relationship between parental beliefs and family adaptation. " At that time, you had given me permission to contact you when my study began and expressed a willingness to help me contact members of your group by posting a request from me for their participation in my study. I have received permission from Boston College to start my study and so am contacting you to see if you are still willing to pass on this information to your group members. If so, I have attached the request for participation to this email. Please review it and, if you are comfortable, post it to your listserv. If you choose not to post this request for participation, please let me know. Thank you so much for your help in this process! If you have any further questions, concerns, or thoughts, please feel free to contact me any time at this email address or at the information provided below. I will be more than happy to provide a summary of my results or discuss them further with interested individuals at the conclusion of this study (approximately December). Thank you again! Sincerely, Warter, M.A. Boston College hilled@... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's time to go back to school! Get the latest trends and gadgets that make the grade on AOL Shopping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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