The research study posted
below (which was also posted last week) has been approved by the Institutional
Review Board of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and it
is a legitimate study. For further questions you can contact Seniz Celimli at senizcelimli@gmail.com
or Dr. Richard BLUMBERG from the
Doctoral Student Doing Study for Dissertation
Project:
The
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
- 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:
- Contact Seniz Celimli by email at, senizcelimli@gmail.com,
e110748@metu.edu.tr or by phone at 1-718-369-1788 or 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