Doctoral Student Doing Study for Dissertation Project:
The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is conducting a cross-cultural study of families raising a child with autism in the United States and Turkey. This research study is being conducted by Seniz Celimli, a doctoral student, under the supervision of Rick Blumberg, Ph.D.
This study aims to understand the differences exist between families of children with autism in the two cultures in terms of social support, parental stress levels, coping strategies, and family adaptability levels. What we learn will help us to identify cultural features that are supportive of family functioning and those that are less supportive.
Your participation in this study will enable us to better understand variation in family dynamics across cultures and will provide us with information that may contribute to more effective supports and sophisticated intervention methods.
The researchers are recruiting families that meet the following criteria:
- Are raising a child with a diagnosis of autism between the ages of 2 to 12 years
- Both parents are second generation citizens of the United States.
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Both parents are willing to share information about their family’s
functioning with the researchers. (All information will be kept
strictly confidential)
If you agree to participate in this research study, you will be asked to engage in the following activities:
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Contact Seniz Celimli by email at, senizcelimli@gmail.com,
e110748@metu.edu.tr or by phone at 1-212-444-8845. If
you wish to participate, she will send you a packet of materials
including a consent to participate in the study and 4 brief
questionnaires.
- Read the informed consent and if you agree to participate, sign the informed consent form.
- Respond to the set of 4 questionnaires. This will take approximately 1 hour.
- Return the consent and questionnaires to the researchers in the self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Thank you for your time and attention. If you have questions about this study, please contact Seniz Celimli at, senizcelimli@gmail.com, e110748@metu.edu.tr or Dr. Rick Blumberg at rick.blumberg@umdnj.edu.
Seniz Celimli
PhD Student