All surveys will be completed in your own home on your own devices. You will be asked to fill out surveys that ask about things like your personality, your attitudes toward parenting, or your stress levels. We will also record a video of you and your child playing together as you normally would during each of the three research phases via Zoom.

For those who are eligible and willing, you will also be invited to come in person to the University of Oregon to complete an MRI scan of your brain.

For the rSEAL Study, we will also mail you an audio-recording device (LENA), a LENA Diary Log to fill out, and a hair collection kit that can be completed at home. The LENA device will record from a pocket inside of a special vest we’ll give to your child, and they will wear it throughout the day for 2 days. A study staff member will walk you through the process of collecting a very small hair sample from you and/or your child over a zoom session.

Information collected for this research will be used to help determine the best ways to support families with their healthy development remotely. We may share results and data with other education or research centers for scientific, educational, or instructional purposes.

Taking part in this research study is your decision. Your participation in this study is voluntary. You do not have to take part in this study, but if you do, you can stop at any time.  You have the right to choose not to participate in any study activity or completely withdraw from continued participation at any point in this study without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.  Your decision whether or not to participate will not affect your relationship ­­with the researchers or the University of Oregon.

If you decide to withdraw yourself from the study, you may request to have your information removed from the research. Information stored by computer will be permanently deleted. Information collected by paper will be destroyed.

For taking part in this research, you may be paid up to a total of $360. Compensation will be in the form of an Amazon gift card or check.

If you decide to withdraw earlier in the study, you will be paid in accordance with the proportion of the sessions and activities completed. 

No. The 10-session program (either FIND or HTP) will be delivered to you at no cost, and neither you, nor your insurance company will be billed for any costs associated with your participation in this research.

You will be randomly assigned to one of the following two programs, FIND or HTP. The rSEAL and OTTER-R studies are designed so that you will receive an evidence-based program that has been shown to provide some benefit to you and your child, with no "placebo group".

Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) is a video coaching program, designed by Dr. Phil Fisher and colleagues, for parents and other caregivers of young children. It uses video to show you your strengths as a caregiver. During FIND visits, the coach will take video recordings of you and your child doing everyday activities and showing you edited clips of moments when you are supporting your child’s development. The video recordings will be sent electronically through a secure method to a film editor at UO. Each of the 10 FIND home visiting sessions will last about 30 minutes.

The Healthy Toddler Program (HTP) is a home visiting curriculum program adapted from the Partners for a Healthy Baby program, which was created by Florida State University’s Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy. A coach will alternate between information sessions about specific areas of child development, and observation sessions where the coach will observe you and your child engaging in free play and then discussing your experience interacting with your child. Each of the 10 HTP home visiting sessions will last about 30 minutes.