communication skills associated with ASD symptomatology for a majority of the target population outlined above. SD/D/N/A/SA
Percentage scale: 0%/25%/50%/75%/100% T/F/Not sure: True/False/Not sure
Appendix F
Appendix G
Consent Statement
Protocol Title: Animal-Assisted Interventions as an Adjunct to ABA Services with Children
and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Principal Investigator/Doctoral Student: Jessica Ghai, M.Ed., BCBA LABA
Description of Subject Population: Behavior analysis professionals, that is: Registered Behavior Technicians™ (RBT®) Board Certified Assistant Behavior
Analysts® (BCaBA®) Board Certified Behavior Analysts® (BCBA®) and Board Certified Behavior Analysts-Doctoral™ (BCBA-D™) recognized by The Behavior Analyst
Certification Board®, Inc. (BACB®) working within the United States and Puerto Rico
Version Date: July 1, 2019
This is a consent form for research participation. It contains important information about this study and what to expect if you decide to participate.
Your participation is voluntary.
You are invited to participate in this unfunded dissertation research study as you are a Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT®), Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst® (BCaBA®), Board Certified Behavior Analyst® (BCBA®), or Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral™ (BCBA-D™) via The Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc. (BACB®) working within the United States and Puerto Rico. Please consider the following information carefully. Feel free to ask questions before making your decision whether or not to participate.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the practices, knowledge, and attitudes of ABA clinicians regarding the use of animals as an adjunct to ABA services. In addition to inquiring about the frequency of use and logistical aspects of animal use, this survey will also examine clinicians’ understandings of the research and ethical considerations, as well as the desirability and perceived feasibility of animal-assisted interventions as an adjunct to ABA services.
Procedures: You will be asked to complete one web-based survey that will collect non- specific demographic information, if/how you incorporate animals into ABA services, your knowledge and awareness of animal-assisted interventions, attitudinal measures regarding animals, and your thoughts about intervention desirability and feasibility.
Duration: Survey duration is dependent on the amount of experience you have with the intervention of focus. For the majority of participants, participation should be approximately 10-15 minutes, but for those that have more information to share, survey duration could be 15-20 minutes. You may leave the study at any time. If you decide to stop participating in the
study, there will be no penalty to you, and you will not lose any benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. Your decision will not affect your future relationship with Boston University.
Risks and Benefits: There are minimal risks associated with this survey study. If you feel emotional, upset, or uncomfortable when answering some of the questions, you may choose not to answer. You may take a break or stop the survey at any point. While there are no immediate benefits to you from taking part in this research, others may benefit in the future from the information that is learned in this study.
Confidentiality: We will work to make sure that on one sees your online responses without approval. But, because we are using the Internet, there is a chance that someone could access your online responses without permission. We will protect your privacy by labeling your anonymous survey with a code and study data will be stored on the password-protected Boston University Google Drive. While the results of this research study may be published, no identifiable information will be included in such manuscript.
Also, there may be circumstances where this information must be released. For example, personal information regarding your participation in this study may be disclosed if required by state law. Also, your records may be reviewed by the following groups: Office of Human Research Protections or other federal, state, or international regulatory agencies; Boston University Institutional Review Board.
Incentives:
No incentives will be provided for participation.
Participant Rights: Taking part in this study is your choice. You are free not to take part or withdraw at any time for any reason. No matter what you decide, there will be no penalty. If you decide to withdraw from this study, the information that you have already provided will be kept confidential. By agreeing to participate, you do not give up any personal legal rights you may have as a participant in this study.
An institutional review board responsible for human subjects research at Boston University reviewed this research project and found it to be acceptable, according to applicable state and federal regulations and University policies designed to protect the rights and welfare of participants in research.
Concerns and Questions: For questions, concerns, or complaints about the study, or you feel you have been harmed as a result of study participation, you may contact Jessica Ghai, M.Ed. BCBA, LABA [email protected] (doctoral student) &/or Dr. Donna
Lehr [email protected] (faculty advisor).
concerns or complaints with someone who is not part of the research team, you may contact the Boston University IRB directly at 617-358-6115.
Provided Consent I have read (or someone has read to me) this page and I am aware that I am being asked to participate in a research study. I have had the opportunity to ask
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To print or save a copy of this page, select the print button on your web browser.
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Appendix H
Mass Email Service Recruitment Analyses
At the close of the active survey link, analyses for the initial and follow-up emails showed favorable interest in research recruitment with email open rates of 25.99% and 17.2% for the initial and follow-up emails and link click rates of 6.3% and 4.8% respectfully (Table H1). It is unknown how many emails were automatically routed to BACB certificants’ email spam folders, but 0 individuals marked the initial survey recruitment email and only 2 individuals marked the follow-up email as spam after opening. Multiple links existed within the email: a link to the survey with Qualtrics (www.qualtrics.com) and two Boston University: Wheelock College of Education and Human Development contact email links.
Table H1
Mass Email Service Recruitment
Total Clinician Population 96,045
Mass Email Service Opt Outs 54,869
Total Emails Sent Via Mass Email Service* 41,176 Emails
opened
Emails bounced
Emails
unopened Link Clicks
Total Link Clicks** Clicks per Person Did not Click Link Initial Email 10,669 134 30,376 672 735 1.09 9,997 Qualtrics Link 654 Contact Links 21 Follow-Up Email 7,061 92 33,990 339 391 1.15 6,722 Qualtrics Link 324 Contact Links 29
Appendix I
Drop-out Distributions Table I1
Notes. n=58; AE: animal exposure demographics; AIP: animal incorporation practices; DF:
desirability & feasibility; KA: knowledge and awareness; Q17: Have you ever incorporated, or supervised others that have incorporated, an animal into ABA services?
0 5 10 15 20 25
Did not continue past
section 2 (AE) After Q17 or at end ofsection 3 (AIP) Within or at the end ofsection 4 (DF) End of section 5 (KA)
Nu mb er o f re sp on de nt s Drop-out point End Within
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