General Population Screener and Consent Process (Youth and Parent)

ATTACHMENT 6_E2b3: PARENT PERMISSION FOR YOUTH 1ST AND 2ND FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW (ExPECTT II)

Form Approved

OMB No. 0910-0753

Exp. Date: 09/30/2019

RIHSC No. 18-009CTP

Parent Permission for Youth Follow up Interview for the Evaluation of the Public Education Campaign on Teen Tobacco Cohort II (ExPECTT II)

The Evaluation of the Public Education Campaign on Teen Tobacco (ExPECTT) is a research study designed to collect data from approximately 4000 youth about their experiences with tobacco products, media use, and other behaviors that are both legal and illegal. RTI International (RTI), a nonprofit research organization, was selected by the FDA to conduct this study.

Because your chid is not yet 18 years old, we must have your permission as the parent or legal guardian before your child participates in the in-person interview. Once we have your permission, your child may choose whether or not to participate in the study. Since the survey is based on a random sample, your child will represent thousands of other youth in the United States.

Purpose of the Youth Interview

This study will provide FDA, policy makers, and researchers important information about youth exposure to public education messages on the health risks of smoking or using other tobacco products. The information collected by this study will also improve our understanding of how public education campaigns affect youth’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward tobacco use.

Types of Questions for Youth

The interview with your child will last about 35-45 minutes. Your child will be asked about his or her beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. We will ask about your child’s media use. We will ask about your child’s use of substances that may be illegal for children to buy or use in your state, such as tobacco and marijuana. We will also ask about your child’s experiences in school and in the home. The youth interview should be completed in a part of the household that allows them to answer in private. If you would like to see a copy of the survey that your child will be taking, we can provide one. However, you will not be able to see your child’s response to the survey questions.

Voluntary Participation

Your child’s participation in this study is completely voluntary. He or she can refuse to answer any and all questions. Your child has the right to stop the interview at any time. Because your child’s contribution is important, we will offer your child $25 if they complete the survey through the website before [ADD DATE], or $20 after [ADD DATE],

as a token of appreciation for participating. For each follow-up your child completes in the future, he or she will receive a token of appreciation.

Risks

There are no physical risks to your child from participating in this interview. It is possible that some questions might make your child mildly uncomfortable, depending on his or her responses.

Benefits

There are no direct benefits to your child from answering our questions. However, he or she will be contributing to important research related to tobacco use among youth. The information youth provide will help researchers and policy makers understand the impact and effectiveness of public education activities aimed at reducing tobacco-related death and disease.

Privacy

Your child will enter his or her answers to the questions directly into the computer. Your child’s name will be kept private. Your child’s answers will be labeled with a number instead of his or her name. This makes it so only research staff will know these are his or her answers. Your child’s answers may be shared with the FDA but not his or her personal information. We will not share any information your child gives us with you or anyone outside the FDA and RTI research teams. All of your child’s answers will be kept private. It is not completely safe to send data through the Internet but we are doing everything we can to protect your child’s data. For example, we will code the data and send it over a secure connection for added protection.

Your name and that of your child will not be reported with any information you or your child provides. Information you and your child provide will be combined with answers of many others and reported in a summary form. To protect the privacy of both you and your child, neither of you will know the other’s interview answers. All staff involved in this research are committed to privacy and have signed a privacy pledge. Information collected will be kept private to the fullest extent allowable by law.

Future Contacts

If your child takes this survey, we will contact you again to invite your child to take [IF BASELINE FILL: three more surveys over the next two years; IF FOLLOW-UP1 FILL: two more surveys over the next year and a half; IF FOLLOW-UP2: FILL one more survey over the next year]. It is up to you and your child to decide if you would like to participate in future surveys. We will ask your permission and your child’s assent before you will be asked to take any future survey.

Questions

If you have any questions about the study, you may call our project assistance line at (800) 608-2955. If you have any questions about your rights as a study participant, you may call RTI's Office of Human Research Protections at 1-866-214-2043 (a toll-free number).

You will be given a copy of this form to keep.

1. Does your child have permission to participate in this study?

1      Yes

2      No

CONTACT_INFO

Your household might be contacted by RTI to verify that I followed the correct steps in completing this interview, and we would also like to be sure that we have the best contact information for you for future interviews.  Can you provide the best telephone number, email address, and mailing address where you can be reached? This information will be stored in a secure location (e.g., locked file cabinet, encrypted computer file) and destroyed after 3 years.

Phone ______________________________________

Email _______________________________________

Mailing Address:

Street _______________________________

City_________________________________

State____________________________________

Zip code___________________________________

IF COMPLETING ONLINE:

INCEN

Thank you for allowing your child [FILL: child’s first name] to take part in this important study. If [your child completes he or she will receive a check for $25 if the survey is completed through the website on or before [DATE], or $20 if it is completed after [DATE].

We will need to collect some information from you so that we can mail out this check. This information will be kept completely confidential in secure and protected data files and will be separate from the responses provided in the survey. If you would like to decline receiving this payment, you can leave the information blank and simply press “Next” to continue to the next screen.

Please provide your child’s first and last name

First name: YFNAME

Last name: YLNAME

What is the best address where we should mail the check?

Street: YSTREET

City: YCITY

State: YSTATE

Zip Code: YZIP

Press “Next” to continue.

OMB No: 0910-0753 Expiration Date: 09/30/2019

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: The public reporting burden for this collection of information has been estimated to average 3 minutes per response. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspects of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing burden to [email protected].

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