Special request: food allergic teens and young adults, ages 14 to 22 are needed to answer a survey before the end of the month! Please share the following links with those in your networks as the final push for information is taking place right now by researchers at Northwestern University. I’m GIGANTIC supporter of any food allergy research. In advocating we use these stats and information to help us get our point across using credible resources. So, please check this out…
p.s. I was not paid to make this request and am doing this to help support researchers and I adore that beautiful Northwestern University.
Overview: Researchers at Northwestern Medicine are conducting a research study entitled “Risk Taking Behavior among Adolescents with Food Allergy,” which is currently enrolling participants. The goal of this study is to learn more about the risk taking behaviors of food allergic adolescents – both in regard to general risk taking and risk taking as it relates to food allergy. In order to participate in the study, adolescents between the ages of 14 and 22 years who currently have a food allergy are being asked to complete an entirely anonymous and confidential electronic survey. No protected health or identifying information is being collected. No compensation is being offered in exchange for study participation. All aspects of this research study have been approved by the Northwestern Institutional Review Board, IRB STU00097291.
If you are between the ages of 18 and 22 and are interested in participating in this study, please click on this secure link to access the anonymous and confidential survey [https://redcap.nubic.
If you are a parent with a food allergic child between the ages of 14 and 17 and have no objections to your adolescent child participating in this study, please forward him/her this link [https://redcap.nubic.
If you would prefer for your child not to participate, no further action is required.
If you have any questions prior to making your decision, please feel free to contact me directly at jacqueline.pence@northwestern.
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..
Thank you for doing this! I’d heard about the study and was looking for an easy way to share the details. Another awesome gift of service by Grateful Foodie.