Abstract
The goal of this study was to examine caregiver agreement to hear about local research opportunities by joining a clinical research registry. Data from this cross-sectional study were gathered, between 2014 and 2017, across two outpatient clinics: (1) a multidisciplinary Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) clinic (N = 5228) and (2) a general psychology clinic serving youth with, or at risk for, a neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD; N = 5040). Overall, more than 8 in 10 caregivers agreed to join the registry. Several child clinical characteristics, as well as racial and sociodemographic factors, were predictive of parental agreement. Findings suggest caregivers of youth with ASD and NDD are amenable to joining the local research enterprise, however further work is needed to understand why some caregivers decline.
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29 August 2019
During the publication process, an author “M. Pinkett-Davis”, who helped conceptualize and revise this study was accidentally excluded from the authorship list. The revised author group is now: Kalb, L., Jacobson, L., Zisman, C., Mahone, E., Landa, R., Azad, G., Pinkett-Davis, M., Menon, D., Singh, V., Zabel, A., & Pritchard, A. Please use this authorship list when citing this manuscript.
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The authors would like to acknowledge Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (U54 HD079123) for supporting this work.
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This study was funded by the Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Research Center (U54 HD079123).
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LK was responsible for conducting the analyses. LK, LJ, GA, DM, VS, and AZ assisted with data acquisition. LK and AP were responsible for developing the initial study questions. All authors contributed to the study design, writing, and interpretation.
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Kalb, L., Jacobson, L., Zisman, C. et al. Interest in Research Participation Among Caregivers of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord 49, 3786–3797 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04088-9
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