Healthy Start, Happy Start
Helping with Children’s Behaviour
What is the study about?
We are running a research study for parents of young children. The study aims to help parents with their children’s behaviour and development, using a programme focusing on understanding and responding to infant’s communication and behaviour. We are looking for a small number of parents to take part and provide us with feedback on the study. This will help us to discover what works best for parents and their children and will help us to design a larger study involving more families.
Who can take part?
We are inviting parents of young children (aged approximately 12-18 months) to take part, and would like to see a range of parents who may have different ways of parenting and different concerns. We are interested in finding out what parents of young children find challenging and what they would most like help with.
What will I have to do?
If you are interested in taking part we will firstly ask you to complete a postal questionnaire. We may then invite you to take part in the next stage of the study: a series of home visits by a member of our research team. There will be 8 home visits in total. The home visits will involve you talking to the researcher and doing some tasks with your child, such as playing or reading together. We will film these short clips and then look at the recordings with you. The researcher will also discuss different ways of responding to common situations you may encounter with your child.
You will be given £25 for completing the first and last sessions with the researcher in recognition of your time and effort.
What happens next?
If you would like more information or you are interested in taking part, please contact Jane or Esther:
Email: happystart@imperial.ac.uk
Telephone: 0203 312 5399/ 1145
The study is being run by Dr. Paul Ramchandani and his team at Imperial College London.
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