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Learn health information for parents of preteens like you
You deserve access to science-backed health information while raising your family. The mission of Better Informed Parents Keeping Adolescents Safe (BIPAS) Alcohol Study is to teach you, as a parent or caregiver, information about health issues that matter most to you and your family.
Through this study, parents learn how to talk about alcohol with their children, with the goal of keeping their kids safe from the harms of alcohol. As you go through the study, your experiences and feedback also helps us improve our program for other parents and preteens.
"I liked the program. It sparked a lot of important conversations at home, but also with fellow parents."
- Participating parent
"Between my wife and I, I think it was one of those areas where we'd never sat down and laid out what are we going to allow or not. And so it wasn't confrontational. It turned out we both wanted the same things, but it was good to get that out."
- Participating parent
"The messages were small amounts of snackable information. If they hit me at the right time, they could prompt interesting discussions."
- Participating parent
The BIPAS Alcohol Study
You do the program on your own time, when and where you choose–no showing up to appointments or meetings! You'll use an app on your smartphone to see information about alcohol and preteens.
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How does it work?
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Parents who choose to participate will enroll with their preteen and get brief information once a day in our study app.
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Participants will complete surveys about their health experiences and perspectives over two years.
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Eligible families who complete all study surveys will receive $200 in gift cards.
I'm interested! What's next?
If you are eligible, we’ll schedule a phone call with you to talk through the study. On this call, we’ll tell you more about it, and help you set up our study app on your phone. You’ll fill out a survey and then another survey after 3, 12, and 24 months. Your child will also fill out surveys at these time points.
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After each survey, you and your child will each get a $25 gift card to a store of your choice. Families who complete all study surveys will receive $200 total in gift cards.
"The program brought up an opportunity to talk about drinking that wasn't accusatory or in reaction to a negative incident. It just gave a neutral platform to talk about it."
- Participating parent
"I appreciated that the program held my attention only for brief chunks of time. My child and I didn't have to spend a half hour having a conversation when we got a message. We could have a quick two or three minute conversation, and I think that really held everybody's interest."
- Participating parent
"It's been helpful because they're easy conversation starters and it doesn't have to be a special conversation set aside during the day. It can just happen anytime. It felt very fluid and natural."
- Participating parent
ABOUT BIPAS
The BIPAS Alcohol Study offers programs to support parents by teaching science-backed health information that matters to their family. The study will enroll 2,000 families across the United States to participate for two years.
Our long-term goal is to understand how well our program educates parents about early alcohol use in preteens. What we learn in this study will help us further develop this and other programs about health topics that parents care about.
Our research team is a collaboration between RTI International in Durham, NC and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Privacy and Confidentiality
Your privacy is protected.
This study was approved by an independent ethics board and has a Certificate of Confidentiality, which helps protect your information from being shared outside the study. The information you share cannot be accessed legally or subpoenaed, is kept secure and never sold.
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