My name is Allison Flynn-Bowman and I am a Brock University Masters student in Applied Health Science – Community Health. I designed a research study for my thesis, and I am looking for fathers, from anywhere in Canada to participate.
The basics of my thesis are:
Fathers, whose partners are pregnant or who have had their baby within the past month, can email Allison at [email protected]
I will confirm their due date, or the infant’s birth date over email, and send them an online survey.
Once they complete the survey, Allison with begin sending them text messages – about 3-5 a week.
Once the baby is 3 months, I send another survey, and another one at 6 months. These three surveys take about 30 minutes each, and the fathers can pause the survey (if they need to attend to their infant!)
They would get those messages the entire 6 months. The messages sometimes have suggestions of things that require time to do with their baby, but there is no official time commitment. They never need to meet so they can do these as work for them.
For more information, they can go to https://www.facebook.com/DadRocksNiagara/
All of the intervention is done online/ on their phone, we never need to meet, and fathers can be anywhere in Canada.
My work was also featured in the Brock news, which was picked up by a few local news stations. https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2018/02/brock-seeks-participants-for-study-on-fathers-with-newborns/
Thank you, Allison