UC Denver Follow-Up Study

UC Denver Follow-Up Study This is a University of Colorado Follow-up Research Study. We are conducting follow-up interviews on people who participated in our studies 5-15 years ago.

If you join the study, these things will happen:

1. You will talk with a researcher over the phone for about 2 hours and then complete a questionnaire on the internet, which takes about 1 hour. You will be asked to answer many questions that are similar to what you answered in previous studies. These questions will be about your personality, your school or work, and your thoughts, feelings and be

haviors, including possible drug use, criminal and sexual behaviors. If you prefer, you may meet with a researcher for about 2-3 hours at their office, your home, or another place of your choice to complete the interviews and questionnaires.

2. We will also ask some questions that may help us be able to contact you for future studies. The researchers may call or write to you every few months to keep track of where you are living. You do not have to participate in any future research studies if you don’t want to. If at any time you wish to withdraw consent for this study or future studies, you may do so by calling Dr. Hopfer, the Study Doctor at 303-724-3170.

3. You will be asked about your brother or sister's behavior, if they also participated in previous studies by these same researchers. These same brothers or sisters may have been asked, or will be asked about your behavior.

4. The researchers will study the DNA sample and information collected from you in previous studies of these same researchers.

5. The researchers store the DNA permanently at a lab on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus, and may use it for future studies.

6. The researchers may send some of your information to the National Institutes of Health Repository, and to other scientists, but only WITHOUT YOUR NAME OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS. The National Institutes of Health will store your information permanently. They will give your information (WITHOUT YOUR NAME OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS) to qualified scientists with approved research plans. Those scientists will keep your information secret. They agree never to try to find out who you are. Risk or discomforts you may experience while in this study include:

A break in secrecy. There is a risk that people outside of the research team will see your research information. We will do all that we can to protect your information, but it cannot be guaranteed. You will be asked questions about very private things, like drug use or crimes and we will look at your DNA. We know that it could be bad if the wrong people got that information. We keep information with your name on it under lock and key, or in password-protected computers in secure rooms. Your answers will be identified by code numbers and not by your name. That way you cannot be identified and your information stays secret. We have a Certificate of Confidentiality from the U.S. Government. This Certificate is not an endorsement by the government. But, the researchers can use this Certificate to legally refuse to release information that identifies you, even under a court order or subpoena. Another risk is that someone could learn about your DNA makeup if they got the information from this study. Therefore, we will only release your information WITHOUT YOUR NAME OR OTHER IDENTIFIERS and only to qualified scientists with approved research plans. There is a small chance that you could get embarrassed or nervous during the interview. If that happens the researchers will help you find a counselor or therapist who can discuss those feelings with you. DNA tests can show family relationships (who is related to whom). Therefore, the researchers will not discuss family DNA relationships with you or anyone else. If the researchers in this project find out about current child abuse, they will report it to state agencies. The study may include discomforts or risks that are unknown at this time. Possible benefits of the study:

This study is designed for the researcher to learn more about causes for teenagers’ and young adults’ drug, alcohol and behavior problems. This study is not designed to treat any illness or to improve your health. You will not get any benefit from participating in this research study. You will be paid for being in the study:

You will be paid up to $100 for completing the interview. You will be paid up to $50 for completing the online questionnaire. The largest amount you may earn is $150. The smallest amount you may earn is $25 for a brief 15-minute interview, if you do not want to complete the full interview.

10/30/2024

We have great news! We increased our payment to $250.

You completed interviews with us in the past and you are now eligible to participate in another interview. This interview will be a lot easier and shorter than the last two as we are doing them over zoom/phone, but now you will be paid $250 for completion of the interview and survey. This interview consists of an online questionnaire (~45min) and an interview (less than 2 hours). Upon completion of the interview and survey, you will be compensated with a $250 check in the mail. We are flexible with hours and can accommodate weekends, weeknights, or early mornings if needed. Again, as always, everything is completely confidential, and your continued participation is very important to our research.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our follow-up study, contact us by email at [email protected]

We are happy to share some exciting updates and insights from our ongoing study. We are now conducting a fourth wave of ...
05/14/2024

We are happy to share some exciting updates and insights from our ongoing study. We are now conducting a fourth wave of paid follow-up interviews! We greatly appreciate your time over the years and your continued participation is very important to this research study.

We are committed to keeping you informed and involved, and our newsletter serves as a bridge to share the progress of our research with you. Our newsletter also includes more information on how to participate in the fourth interview.

If you have completed wave 4 already, thank you for your participation. If you have not and are interested in participating, please reach out to update your contact information and to schedule an interview.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about our follow-up study, please contact us by email at [email protected].

Thank you once again for your participation and contribution to our study.

05/23/2018

You are very important to our follow-Up study and we want to make participating easy by using an online consent form, a phone interview, and an online questionnaire, or we can come to you! All participants are paid $150 to complete a phone interview and online questionnaire. Too busy for the full interview? You can do a shortened phone interview instead and earn $25.

04/11/2017

We are in the final years of the study and we’d like you to participate before the study is over. We will pay you $150 to participate. We can schedule whenever it is convenient for you. You can complete the study by phone and online, or meet with us in-person if that is better for you.

04/29/2016

If you would like to learn more about our follow-up study please contact us at [email protected]. All participants are paid $100 to complete a phone interview and online questionnaire.

04/08/2015

We are trying to contact everyone we interviewed 5-15 years ago to ask if they want to participate in this new phase of the follow-Up study, if you want to take part please contact us: [email protected]. All participants are paid $100 to complete a phone interview and online questionnaire.

RESEARCH RESULTS:Our study principal investigator has selected several scientific journal articles that highlight some o...
04/08/2015

RESEARCH RESULTS:
Our study principal investigator has selected several scientific journal articles that highlight some of the important findings of our past research. Please note that we are currently analyzing data from the last round of interviews, so these articles actually report findings from data collected earlier, or from related studies by our research team:

Conduct disorder and initiation of substance use: a prospective longitudinal study.
Hopfer C, Salomonsen-Sautel S, Mikulich-Gilbertson S, Min SJ, McQueen M, Crowley T, Young S, Corley R, Sakai J, Thurstone C, Hoffenberg A, Hartman C, Hewitt J.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2013 May;52(5):511-518.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2013.02.014. Epub 2013 Apr 4.
LINK To Article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813459/

Medical ma*****na use among adolescents in substance abuse treatment.
Salomonsen-Sautel S, Sakai JT, Thurstone C, Corley R, Hopfer C.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;51(7):694-702. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2012.04.004. Epub 2012 May 26.
LINK To Article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381870/

Subjective effects to ma*****na associated with ma*****na use in community and clinical subjects.
Zeiger JS, Haberstick BC, Corley RP, Ehringer MA, Crowley TJ, Hewitt JK, Hopfer CJ, Stallings MC, Young SE, Rhee SH.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2010 Jun 1;109(1-3):161-6. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2009.12.026. Epub 2010 Feb 9.
LINK To Article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000695/


A genome-wide scan for loci influencing adolescent cannabis dependence symptoms: evidence for linkage on chromosomes 3 and 9.
Hopfer CJ, Lessem JM, Hartman CA, Stallings MC, Cherny SS, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Krauter KS, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Rhee SH, Smolen A, Young SE, Crowley TJ.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007 Jun 15;89(1):34-41. Epub 2006 Dec 13.
LINK To Article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892279/

To examine the influence of conduct disorder (CD) on substance initiation.Community adolescents without CD (n= 1165, mean baseline age= 14.6), with CD (n= 194, mean baseline age= 15.3), and youth with CD recruited from treatment (n=268, mean baseline ...

12/16/2014

We are starting our 3rd round of interviews! Letters announcing this new phase of our follow-Up study have just been sent. If you want to take part in the study, please contact us: [email protected]. All participants are paid $100 to complete a phone interview and online questionnaire.

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