Paid NIH child development study seeks 6 and 12 month olds -- DC in-home appointments

[dmgoldberg]

Hello, Urban Moms and Dads,

I posted about this study on DCUM in May and we had a nice response. However, the protocol has since been updated so that we can now come to you (which makes the process much easier for parents).

If your child is between the ages of 5-7 months or 11-13 months (or will be soon), and you are interested in learning about your child’s cognitive, motor, and language skills, the National Institutes of Health would love your help. We are evaluating a short version of a measure of child development which may be used in The National Children’s Study and other large scale studies.

We'll be observing such skills as crawling, reaching, understanding gestures and words, and walking. You will be with your child during the full session, and will receive $25 and a child's gift book as thanks for taking part in this study. The appointment lasts 45 to 65 minutes. The activity can be performed in at Westat's offices in Rockville, MD (evening and weekend hours are also available), or, as mentioned, arrangements can be made for a two-person staff team to come to your home in selected areas including Western DC and the nearby Maryland and Virginia suburbs.

To learn more and sign up, please visit http://www.westat.com/about_us/research_participation_bayley.cfm.

Thanks for helping to improve childhood research (and please feel free to comment on/top this thread so that more people are able to see it)!

[dmgoldberg]

Bump...

[Anonymous]

Bump! We did this last weekend

[dmgoldberg]

Great to hear! We really do appreciate all the support that the study has received from this forum.

[dmgoldberg]

One last round of bumps -- if you're interested and have a child who is or will soon be 6 or 12 months old, we'd appreciate your help!

[dmgoldberg]

Penultimate bump....

[Anonymous]

How long will the study go on? I would be happy to participate, but my baby is only three months old now.

[dmgoldberg]

Excellent question. We are expecting to continue until the end of August, and maybe a little longer if needed. If your baby will be 5 months old by the end of August, we would be delighted to include you. If you're interested, please go to the signup link (in the first post) and put in your email address -- someone from the study will send you more information.

[Anonymous]

Bump! I just participated in this study with my baby and was able to get some good ideas about skills I can work on with her as well as activities to try.

[Anonymous]

I also participated in this study. (Full disclosure, I'm also an employee at Westat, but employees were able to participate this time because we don't need a representative sample). Just wrote up my thoughts and I thought I'd share them with more details for anybody who's interested:

I found the experience to be pretty fun. Our daughter took the study for 6 month olds. A nice interviewer named Noura come over to our house on Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, and she was there for about 45 mins. All she did is give our daughter a few basic toys (blocks and hoops) to play with and see how she interacted with them. Then she also saw how well she sat up, responded to her name (and a few other words like "no"), and generally moved around. At the end, she gave us results in 3 categories (our daughter was reportedly average for speech, high average for motor control, and above average for cognitive in her age group ). She sat in her high chair almost the whole time (other than the sitting test) and seemed to like playing with the toys from our interviewer. I assume it might be slightly different for 1 year olds, but the general process is probably the same.

[Anonymous]

Bumping just to add that someone else just shared this testimonial with me:

“Participating in the study was fun and easy! It was great to see all the things my son could do in a structured setting and to know that we were helping to improve future studies.”

-CJ, Rockville, MD

[Anonymous]

We just had two more testimonials come through, so I thought I'd give this thread a quick bump:

1) Our last study went well and the tester was very nice and efficient.

Thanks
J

2) Hello,

Participating in this research study was a great experience - thank you! I've posted the info link on my Facebook page so hopefully that will yield you some additional respondents. Best of luck!

Sincerely,
SB

As I noted earlier, I participated in this study myself, and have contact with the research team as well, so if anyone has any questions about it please feel free to post here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also participated in this study. (Full disclosure, I'm also an employee at Westat, but employees were able to participate this time because we don't need a representative sample). Just wrote up my thoughts and I thought I'd share them with more details for anybody who's interested:

I found the experience to be pretty fun. Our daughter took the study for 6 month olds. A nice interviewer named Noura come over to our house on Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, and she was there for about 45 mins. All she did is give our daughter a few basic toys (blocks and hoops) to play with and see how she interacted with them. Then she also saw how well she sat up, responded to her name (and a few other words like "no"), and generally moved around. At the end, she gave us results in 3 categories (our daughter was reportedly average for speech, high average for motor control, and above average for cognitive in her age group ). She sat in her high chair almost the whole time (other than the sitting test) and seemed to like playing with the toys from our interviewer. I assume it might be slightly different for 1 year olds, but the general process is probably the same.

I participated right before they started the home visits but didn't get any "results" - is that new?

[Anonymous]

I participated. They don't give results (so surprised at the "results" above) though you may pick up an informal assesment as you go though it.

[Anonymous]

Great study. And fun for parent and baby.