What your child will do for this study: To answer these questions, children play games using a touch screen tablet. There are two games your child will complete while wearing slightly weighted armbands (0.5lb) to help us understand how movement influences how children solve problems. The games are described in the attached letter of information.
Videotaping: We typically videotape each session with your permission (see video consent form) to help us score the test more accurately.
Time required for this study: Children usually take between 20-45 minutes to finish our study, and we will work with your child in their school, day care center, organization, and/or at our University of Mississippi laboratory.
Possible risks from participation: Studies are presented as “games” that have been designed to be safe, comfortable, and enjoyable for children. Although children may feel frustration during tasks (e.g., being asked to wait), the risk involved is no more than one would experience in normal activities.
Benefits from participation: Although neither you nor your child should expect benefits from participating in this study, you and your child may experience satisfaction from contributing to scientific knowledge. In addition, participating in these problem-solving tasks may provide practice with challenging situations children often experience.
Incentives: Children will receive a toy and a $10.00 gift card for participation.
Confidentiality: Research team members will have access to records from this study. Your privacy will be protected, because your child will not be identified by name in this project and we will store information that identifies you and your child separately from your responses. Members of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) – the committee responsible for reviewing the ethics of, approving and monitoring all research with humans – have authority to access all records. However, the IRB requests identifiers only when necessary. We will not release identifiable results of the study to anyone else without your written consent unless required by law.
Confidentiality of video recordings: Video recordings will be kept on a password-protected computer in a locked office, only accessible to the research team. Video recordings will be kept until no further analysis is anticipated (approximately 7 years, after which videotapes will be erased). If you give written permission to show a video of your child to professional audiences, it is possible that someone may recognize your child. In any publication or reports of this project, only group results will be described, and no individual participants will be named or identified.
Right to Withdraw: You do not have to volunteer for this study, your child does not have to participate, and there is no penalty if either of you refuses. Your child will be asked if he or she wants to help us do the study and can stop the study at any time without penalty by letting the experimenter know. Whether or not you choose to participate or to withdraw will not affect your future relationship with the Department of Psychology or with the University and it will not cause you to lose any benefits to which you are entitled.
IRB Approval
This study has been reviewed by The University of Mississippi’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB has determined that this study fulfills the human research subject protections obligations required by state and federal law and University policies. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your rights or your child’s rights as a research participant, please contact the IRB at (662) 915-7482 or irb@olemiss.edu.
Please ask the researcher if there is anything that is not clear or if you need more information. When all your questions have been answered, then decide if you want your child to be in the study or not.
Statement of Consent
I have read the above information. I have been given an unsigned copy of this form. I have had an opportunity to ask questions, and I have received answers. I consent to allow my child to participate. Furthermore, I also affirm that the experimenter explained the study to me and told me about the study’s risks as well as my right and my child’s right to refuse to participate and to withdraw.