Authors: Justin Parent Rex Forehand Hayley Pomerantz Virginia Peisch Martin Seehuus
Publish Date: 2017/01/05
Volume: 45, Issue: 7, Pages: 1259-1270
Abstract
The purpose of the current study was twofold 1 To examine time trends of the inclusion of fathers in child psychopathology research from 2005 to 2015 and 2 to examine online crowdsourcing as a method to recruit and study fathers In study 1 findings indicated that relative to two earlier reviews of father participation from 1984 to 1991 and 1992–2004 there has been limited progress in the inclusion of fathers in child psychopathology research over the last decade In study 2 without explicit efforts to recruit fathers almost 40 of a sample of 564 parents recruited from online crowdsourcing Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were fathers Major demographic differences did not emerge between mother and father participants and data were equally reliable for mothers and fathers Fathers were more likely to drop out over the course of a 12month followup but these differences in retention between mothers and fathers were nonsignificant if fathers were retained at a 2week followup Finally family process models tested across four assessments baseline 4 8 and 12 month followups indicated that data from fathers are equally supportive of convergent validity as data from mothers We concluded that online crowdsourcing is a promising recruitment methodology to increase father participation in child psychopathology researchThis research was supported by the Child and Adolescent Psychology Training and Research Inc CAPTR The first author is supported NICHD grant F31HD082858 and the second author is supported by NIMH grant R01MH100377 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent he official views of the National Institutes of HealthAll procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards
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