Kids between the ages of 8 and 10 in your household? Get in on this PAID study you can do from home on how families in Dayton experience and cope with stress.
Have you ever stopped to wonder how childhood stress affects us as adults? We all can agree that 2020 has been quite the stressful year! Do you wonder in the back of your mind how living through a pandemic will affect us all, especially how it will affect our kids’ psyches as they grow into adulthood? Some stress is traumatic and contributes to childhood adversity. The Dayton Kids Project has a mission to better understand all of this. While many Americans have experienced traumatic events, only a few go on to develop PTSD. McLean Hospital and Harvard University have teamed up with Dayton Children’s Hospital and the University of Dayton in the Gem City to try and understand the factors that promote resiliency and take that knowledge to discover better ways to help children in the future.
The team of researchers from McLean and UD are collaborating with The Connor Group Kids and Community Partners in this project. East End Community Services, Ruskin Elementary School, and Dayton’s Children’s Hospital have partnered in the community to conduct the study. They are actively recruiting families from the Dayton area to participate in this longitudinal research study.
Here are the basics –
You can participate from home!
Seeking generally healthy kids ages 8-10 and all their parents (and grandparents!)
Answer questions about life experiences, stress, family, and coping
Provide saliva samples
$75 per family per study visit (up to five study visits for up to $375 total)
Here’s how to participate in the study –
Email [email protected]
Call or Text 937.469.8959
“Our research aims to characterize individual differences in risk and resilience to provide a clearer picture of disease trajectories in response to trauma exposure and its recovery process.” – McLean Hospital
The Dayton Kids Project will choose 1,000 subjects from the Gem City, 500 of which will each be children 8-10 and the kids’ mothers/fathers/guardians. Data collection for the study will be done via questionnaires with several self-report measures. DNA sampling from saliva DNA will be collected with an Oragene DNA Kit (DNA Genotek). The security and privacy of those samples will be monitored at all times. The genetic analyses will be performed at McLean Hospital. Each family will have five study visits, occurring every six months for two years. $50 of the $75 compensation per study visit will be for filling out the questionnaires, and the other $25 will come from providing saliva samples.
McLean Hospital—Kids and Community Partners Collaboration: A Developmental Epigenetic Study
Principal Investigator: Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
Co-Investigators: Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD & Lucy Allbaugh, Ph.D.
Study Coordinator: Megan Shevenell, MS