Are you a parent who has recently found out about your teen’s self-injury? Or, are you a teenager whose parent has recently found out about your self-injury? If so, then you might be eligible to participate in a study that uses a virtual interview and online surveys to understand how families navigate the discovery of self-injury.
The Risky Behaviour Lab’s Self-Injury and Family Functioning Project aims to understand how teens and parents cope with the discovery of self-injury. Interested parents and teens will complete a short, online eligibility survey. If eligible, parents and teens will complete separate interviews (on Zoom) with a trained member of our team. Then, parents and teens will complete online surveys every two weeks for 12 weeks.
Our interviews and surveys will ask about self-injury, mental health, family functioning, and wellbeing. Teens must be 13-17 years old, live part- or full-time with the parent partaking in the study, and have engaged in recent self-injury. Parents also need to have learned of their teen’s self-injury in the past six weeks.
Teens can receive up to $160 and parents can receive up to $140 if they complete all parts of the study. The total time required is about 6-7 hours, over 14 weeks.
This research is being conducted by Dr. Brianna Turner and Christina Robillard at the University of Victoria.
To find out more information, visit the following website: https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/teenselfinjurystudy/
