Baby face qualitative Evaluation

Qualitative Evaluation 
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Focus group consent form 
CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A FOCUS GROUP 
 
You are being invited to join a focus group (group discussion) because you currently participate or 
have participated in the Baby FACE program. We are having eight groups as part of an evaluation 
study to learn about how the Baby FACE program is effective.
The focus group is about your experience in the Baby FACE program. Wilder Research is 
conducting the focus group. The group will take about 90 minutes. Everyone who agrees to be part 
of the group will get $50 at the end. During the focus group, a facilitator from Wilder Research will 
ask about 15 questions about why you decided to participate in the Baby FACE program, your 
experience having a Parent Educator come to your home, and how your family may have changed 
since participating in the Baby FACE program. 
The focus group is not part of the Baby FACE program. You do not have to participate in the group 
if you do not want to. If you decide not to participate, it will not affect your relationship with your 
Parent Educator or the Baby FACE program. If we ask a question during the group that you do not 
want to answer, you do not have to say anything. You may leave the group at any time.
What you say during the focus group is confidential. No one from Wilder Research will tell anyone 
who came to the group discussion. We will not write your names on the notes we take or in the 
report that we write. We will record this conversation because what you say is important and we do 
not want to miss anything. After we type a report on what was recorded, we will erase the 
recording. We will only report what all of you said as a group, not what a certain parent said. All of 
your answers will be put together as a group, and we will not attach anyone’s name to what they 
say.
If you have any questions about the focus group, please ask them before you sign this form. If you 
agree to be part of the focus group, please sign your name on both of the consent forms you were 
given. One of them is for you to keep. Please give the second form to the focus group facilitator.