Explanation of Procedures. If you agree to take part in this study, you will first sign this consent form. The study staff will then verify you are eligible to take part in the study. You will not be able to take part in this study if you use a BAN as an outpatient at home. Once your eligibility is confirmed you will be randomly assigned “randomized” to receive nebulizer treatments with either SN or BAN. Randomization means you are put into a group by chance. It is like flipping a coin. You have an equal chance (50/50) of being placed in either group. Neither you, the study staff nor your doctor can pick which group you will be assigned. Once you are randomized you will begin to receive your nebulizer treatments only using the device you were assigned to. If you are assigned to SN you will continue to use the SN device (handheld or mask) as you were before enrolling in the study. If you are randomized to BAN, a nurse or respiratory therapist will show you how to use the BAN device. After signing the consent form patients in both groups willbe asked to complete the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire for COPD patients. This is a 14-question survey that should take 5-10 minutes to complete. You will also be asked to complete a daily, one question survey rating how you feel about your shortness of breath while you are on nebulizer treatments for up to 7 days. If you are in the BAN group at some point during your hospital stay (likely within 3-4 days) a member of the study staff will ask you to complete a short (less than 5 minutes) survey about how easy or difficult you feel the BAN was to use. Study staff will collect information from your medical record (for up to 6 months after you are discharged from the hospital) like the number of nebulizer treatments you receive, oxygen use, the need for breathing support, how long you stay in the hospital, pulmonary function test results performed after discharge and readmissions to the hospital. A member of the study team may call you after discharge during that 6 months to see how you are doing. They may also contact your primary care doctor or lung doctor. Your care will not be changed or influenced in any way by being in this study. You will receive nebulizer treatments as per your doctor’s orders as frequently and for as long as your doctor feels you need them. There is nothing else you need to do as part of your participation in the study. Some of the services you will receive are being performed only because you are participating in t...
Explanation of Procedures. To be included in the study, you must meet the following inclusion criteria:
a. You are licensed as a psychologist, counselor, or social worker.
b. Your license allows you to diagnose psychiatric disorders. If you do not meet these criteria, you will not be included in this study, and we will notify you via an email. If you qualify and are willing to participate, you will be taken to the questionnaire after signing and submitting this informed consent.
1. A demographics questionnaire: these are questions about you, including education history, type of license held, and setting in which you practice.
2. Three vignettes: presented individually for which you will provide a diagnosis.
Explanation of Procedures. Participation will involve a screening conversation via telephone and mail to determine study eligibility. You have already completed this screening. If you and your child are eligible, you are now being asked to sign this consent form. This consent form and assent form for children will be explained to you by a member of the research team. Should you wish to participate and to allow your child to participate, you and your child will be asked to sign this consent document. You and your child will also be asked to complete several questionnaires that will determine if they are eligible for this study. If your child is eligible and you both have agreed to participate, you and your child will be asked to stay at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center for approximately 2 hours for an assessment visit. During this time, you and your child will have height and weight measured, and you and your child will complete several questionnaires, interviews, and tasks about his or her eating habits and psychological functioning. We will collect information about you for the purposes of this research. This includes your name, your address, phone number, e- mail address, gender, and your child’s age and date of birth. We would like to record the interviews for training purposes, but you can decline to have them recorded. I GIVE THE RESEARCHERS PERMISSION TO AUDIO/VIDEORECORD THE INTERVIEWS WITH MY CHILD □ YES □ NO Signature of parent/guardian* Date and Time when signed Signature of parent/guardian* Date and Time when signed You will be given the opportunity to review the questionnaires before they are administered to your child, and to withdraw your consent for your child to complete any or all of the questionnaires if you choose. In addition, you and/or your child will be asked to complete a questionnaire which addresses how physically developed your child has become, in terms of genital (penis, testicle, or labial) growth, the emergence and growth of hair around the genitals and under the arms, as well as other parts of the body, and the appearance of breasts in girls. This is called Xxxxxx staging, allowing the doctor and the researchers to understand at what point in physical growth towards an adult body a child or adolescent has reached. After the assessment visit, your child will then come back for a second 2-hour visit to participate in a MRI scan at Brown University while they are viewing different words and responding during a task designed to assess their...
Explanation of Procedures. Your child will be randomly assigned (like by the flip of a coin) by a computer to one of two groups. Neither you nor the researcher can decide which group you will be assigned to. For both groups, this study will involve your child’s participation in a brief survey and in-person session here in the emergency department (ED), followed by text messages for 8 weeks. The in-person session will be conducted right now, before you leave the ED, and will take about 20-30 minutes. In the session, we will go over with your child either the way that thoughts, emotions, and behavior work together (GROUP 1), or ways to improve their use of healthy behavior like seatbelts and nutrition (GROUP 2). For both groups, we will also go over the text messaging system. During the session with your child, we will ask you to step out of the room and you will be given some handouts to read. If your child is discharged from the emergency department before finishing the in-person session, we will move to a private treatment room to finish it. It should not take more than 20-30 minutes to finish. The session will be digitally recorded for quality purposes. Recordings of the session will be kept confidential and will be stored in a locked file in a locked research office. All identifying information will be destroyed after the study is complete. The audio recordings will be destroyed 5 years after the close of the study. The purpose is to evaluate the performance of the study staff, not you. GROUP 1 participants will receive daily text messages that will provide skills on managing stressful situations. Each day, GROUP 1 participants will be automatically sent one text-message question about their day, followed by a text message just for your child. The text messages will provide skills on managing stressful situations. Although no one will be monitoring the text messages, our program can send extra messages on certain topics (“MOOD” and “FIGHT”) if your child needs them. GROUP 2 participants will receive regular text messages on topics related to diet and nutrition. Messages will be sent to your child’s cell phone using an automated computerized system developed by an outside company, Reify Health. Only members of this research team will see your child’s text messages and responses. For both groups, we will contact your child to complete a follow-up survey and brief interview (over the phone, in person, or over the internet) at 8 weeks and again at 16 weeks (since the start of the stu...
Explanation of Procedures. If you take part in this study, you will be randomized to either a 12- week exercise program or a delayed exercise condition, meaning that you cannot choose which group you are placed in (see below for additional details explaining both conditions). You will also be asked to complete assessment visits before the start of the study, half way through the study, and at the end of the study and you will be compensated for the 6-week and 12-week assessments. The following outlines all study procedures.
Explanation of Procedures. If you take part in this study you will:
1. Complete Stage 1 baseline survey about your age, sex, gender, HIV status, sexual behavior, and other basic information about you. After your baseline you will be randomly assigned to one of two interventions: Group A Strength Based Case Management (SBCM) Intervention: Where you will meet with a trained case manager one on one to help you obtain Truvada (from now on referred to as “PrEP pills”) from The Xxxxxx Hospital STD and PrEP Clinic. Group B Standard of Care: You will be provided with a referral to The Xxxxxx Hospital STD and PrEP Clinic
2. Your first clinical appointment at The Xxxxxx Hospital PrEP Clinic will include: Blood drawing: You will be asked to provide a blood sample (two teaspoons) from a vein in your arm for laboratory tests. This blood sample will be used for testing for PrEP drug levels, HIV and other STDs. We may also collect urine samples and swabs from your rectum and throat to test for STDs. A review of your medical records including medical history, HIV testing, and other STD testing. If your results show that you are HIV-positive and/or infected with hepatitis B, you will not proceed to Stage 2 and you will be directly referred for treatment. If you begin PrEP, as part of routine clinical care, you will see the doctor every three months for a check-up to look for any side effects and test you for HIV. In addition to any blood samples the doctor may take to test for HIV and side effects, we may request blood and hair samples to check for PrEP levels in your blood as part of the study.
Explanation of Procedures. If you participate in this study, you will receive a 4-month, Internet- based behavioral weight loss program followed by an 8-month, Internet-based weight loss maintenance program. As part of this program, you will be asked to view video lessons and log your calorie intake, weight, and physical activity on the study website weekly. In addition to the Internet program, some individuals will also receive phone coaching. You may be randomly assigned to either 3 weeks of phone coaching, 12 weeks of phone coaching, or no phone coaching. You cannot choose whether or not you receive the phone coaching, rather it is determined by a method similar to flipping a coin. It is estimated that approximately 50% of individuals will receive phone coaching. We will conduct assessments of weight, diet, physical activity, and various questionnaire measures at baseline, 4, and 12 months. More details regarding the internet program, phone coaching, and assessment visits can be found below. Individuals will not be identified in any way and all information will be kept confidential. Those selected for ‘brief’ phone coaching will be asked to complete 3 phone calls with a coach between weeks 5-8 of the study and those selected to receive ‘extended’ phone coaching will be asked to complete 12 phone calls with a coach between weeks 5-16. The first coaching call will be approximately 45 minutes in duration and all subsequent calls will be 10-15 minutes in duration. The coach will individually work with you to help you to overcome any barriers that you may be experiencing and to help you develop an individualized meal plan. After you have completed 3 or 12 coaching calls (depending upon which group you were assigned to), you will have no additional interaction with the coach, but you will remain enrolled in the Internet program.
Explanation of Procedures. (1) Police Officers maintain authority and responsibility for a potential crime scene at all time.
Explanation of Procedures. If you decide that you are interested in taking part in this study, the next step is that you will complete a baseline assessment. As part of this assessment, we will measure your height and weight and you will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires, have a brief interview with study staff, wear an armband for 10 days, and answer surveys on your smartphone for 10 days. After completing each of these steps and if it is determined that you are eligible for the study, you will be asked to complete a 12-week weight loss program in which you will attend weekly, group-based meetings. Following this, you will receive one of two interventions aimed at improving long-term weight loss outcomes: cooking/dietary instruction classes or yoga (described in further detail below). Following the 12-week weight loss program, you will be randomly assigned “randomized into one of these study groups. Randomization means that you are put into a group by chance. It is like flipping a coin. Which group you are put in is done by a computer. Neither you nor the researcher will choose what group you will be in. You will have an equal chance of being in either of the two groups. Further, you will be asked to complete assessments at baseline, 12 weeks, 24 weeks, and 1 year which will be used to evaluate these programs. The assessment visits and weight loss programs are described in detail below.
Explanation of Procedures. Two sets of questions are needed to complete your part of this project. The first questions are included with this form. Students will also be contacted by telephone and asked more questions one year after leaving high school.
