09.19.07

Researchers Offer $200 to Qualified Stepfamily Members

Posted in Research About Stepfamilies at 4:53 pm by Dawn Miller

Stepfamilies - a new research study is offering $200 to parents and stepparents in blended families. I’m just the messenger on this one. I edited the opening paragraph for a run-on sentence that garbled the message. God bless the graduate students out there. Here goes:

The Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc. with funding from the National Institutes of Health, is conducting a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of a new multi-media educational stepfamily program. It will train parents in stepfamily relationships in effective behavioral parenting and teach them how to deal with issues specific to stepfamilies.

We are currently working to recruit 300 stepparents, of diverse heritage and race, to participate in the study. Participants will try a new parenting educational program and fill out up to 3 online questionnaires.

Each participant will receive up to $200 for their time.

To qualify, participants must be…

- a Parent or stepfamily in a stepfamily
- married for 5 years or less to their current spouse
- share responsibility for a child 11-15 years old that lives with them at least part-time
- be able to read and understand English
- have not taken a parenting or stepparenting class in the last 3 months
- have an active email account and for the next 6 months computer access with a high-speed Internet connection
- reside in the U.S.

To see if you qualify go to: http://study.newstepfamily.com

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