Participant information Sheet (Staff)

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Mechanisms of change in intensive group intervention for teenagers who stammer.

You are being invited to take part in this research project. Before you decide to do so, it is important you understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Please take time to read the following information carefully and discuss it with others if you wish. Ask us if there is anything that is not clear or if you would like more information. Take time to decide whether or not you wish to take part. Thank you for reading this. 

This research project aims to explore how taking part in the Talking Out Residential effects the way that participants feel about stammering.  

The project is being carried out by Ben Bolton-Grant. Ben is a speech and language therapist and a PHD student at Leeds Beckett University. This project is being carried out as part of Ben’s PHD. 

You have been asked to take because your you are part of the staff team delivering the Talking Out Residential in October. We are interested in your experiences and thoughts about this intervention. 

We are asking you to consider two things:

1. Ben will join the residential in October as an observer. He will make notes based on his observations of the group. No names or specific details will be recorded about participants. This does not involve you doing anything in addition to your normal role delivering the residential.
2. You will be invited to take part in an online one to one interview after the residential has finished. This will be arranged for a time to suit you.  The conversation will be recorded so that it can be analysed later. The recordings will be kept secure and not shown to anyone else.

No. 

It is up to you whether or not you take part in either or both elements of the research. 

Yes. 

You can change your mind and opt out of taking part in the research. You can do this up until 5 days after the interview has taken place. After this point your data will have been combined with other people’s data and it will not be possible to remove it from the analysis. 

Taking part in the interview will require you to give up some of your time. The interview will be arranged for a time to suit you. If, during or after the interview, you have any questions or concerns about working with young people who stammer Ben will support you with this and direct you to other sources of information if needed.  

Taking part in the research will help further our understanding of how the residential helps people to feel differently about stammering. This may lead to improvements to stammering therapy in future, which may support other young people who stammer.  

If you have any complaints about the project then you can talk to Ben in the first instnace. If you feel your complaint has not been handled to your satisfaction you can contact the Leeds Beckett University using the details below.  

Yes. 

All the information that we collect about you during the course of the research will be kept strictly confidential. This means that you will not be able to be identified or identifiable in any reports or publications. Any data collected about you the assessments, or recordings of the focus groups will be stored online protected by passwords and other relevant security processes and technologies. 

What you say in the interview will be kept private and won’t be shared with the any other members of staff. 

Data collected may be shared in an anonymised form to allow reuse by the research team and other third parties. No information about who you or where you work will be shared with anybody. 

The only time we will share information is if you share something that raises concerns about your or somebody else’s safety. We will talk to you if this happens.