Has your partner experienced a brain injury of any kind? Do you and your partner have one or more children aged between 7 and 17?
If so, your input could be hugely valuable to a new research project.
Research shows that following a brain injury, family members may go through a period of grieving and loss, and children can experience emotional and behavioural changes.
The aim of a new study is to investigate the relationship between a child’s psychological functioning, following a parental brain injury, and the experience of grief and loss in the non-brain injured parent.
This research hopes to provide understanding for the family experience of a brain injury, which would help to guide future support available to families.
You can take part in this study if you are:
1. An adult aged 18 or over
2. A parent or caregiver to one or more children aged between 7 and 17 years
3. Able to understand written English
4. A partner of an individual who has experienced a brain injury of any kind
and your partner is:
* a parent or caregiver to the same child/children
* experienced a brain injury more than 6 months ago
You would not be eligible to take part in this study if you or your child had a diagnosed pre-existing mental health illness prior to your partner’s brain injury.
Participants will be asked to complete online questionnaires, answering questions about themselves, their child and their partner, and should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
All responses are submitted anonymously, and no personal identifiable information is collected.
To register your interest follow the link to the study page: https://tinyurl.com/y6fo8jw8.
The researcher for this study is Poppy Harding. Contact p.harding@surrey.ac.uk or find her on Twitter: @PsychPoppy.
