Participants needed for research in parenting and teen brain development.
You may be eligible for this study if you:
Identify as Indigenous, First Nations, Metis, or Inuit (NEW)
Have experienced or suspect you have experienced depression or anxiety in your past.
Have a child aged 12 to 19 who has never been diagnosed with depression or anxiety.
Live in the Calgary area and are able to commute to the Foothills Medical Centre.
As a participant in this study, your child would be asked to:
Have harmless, non-painful scans of their brain taken (MRI, EEG, TMS)
Spit/drool in a tube (saliva sample)
Fill out questionnaires and complete interviews about their relationship with you, their moods, and things going on in their life.
We would ask you to:
Spit/drool in a tube (saliva sample)
Fill out questionnaires and complete interviews about your relationship with your child, their moods, and events in their life.
Interact with your child in the laboratory.
You participation would take up approximately 3-4 hours of your time on one visit (interviews, questionnaires, interaction task), 2 hours of your time on another visit (brain scan), and approximately 90 minutes at home (questionnaires, saliva sample).
If you participate, we would contact you again in 9 months for a phone interview and then in 18 months to ask you and your child to participate again and do similar things. You do not have to participate at follow-up points if you don’t want to.
To thank you for your participation, your family will receive $200, and your child will receive $100, as well as $50 on their birthday. You will each receive a $25 gift card for the 9 month telephone interviews. This will happen each time your family participates in the study.
!NEW! We are pleased to announce a new limited participation option. With this option, families will complete a reduced number of tasks (interviews, saliva samples, and in-lab questionnaires ONLY) and will receive $150 for approximately 4 hours (total) of commitment. Both you and your child will receive $50 for your time, as well as the $50 on your child’s birthday.
If you are interested in participating, please visit this link to fill out your contact information, and we will contact you as soon as possible. Thank you!
For more information, please contact the project coordinator Hayley Schmidtler at hayley.schmidtler@ucalgary.ca or at 403-210-6839.
