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- ItemOpen AccessAccessing populations with specialized clinical needs: an illustrative case study using Google Adwords™(American Psychological Assocation, 2013) Eaton, Warren O.; Kenyon, Katherine M.When seeking help for health problems, a majority of individuals now look online first. There they are confronted with millions of results and typically visit only a few toplisted websites. As a consequence, being noticed is a significant problem for psychologists who use online tools to recruit help-seeking persons to either research studies or professional practices. The salience of a psychologist’s online presence can be increased through the use pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements that, for a price, appear near the top of the search results listings. The potential of PPC advertising to recruit a clinical sample for a research survey on childhood obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) was tested in this proof-of-concept case study using Google AdwordsTM. We created and implemented ads whose appearance on searchers screens was triggered by selected keywords that matched the content of our website landing page. Ads were displayed in 11 selected geographic locations worldwide and were aimed at parents of children with OCD. Over a 16-week campaign 183 participants completed our survey at an average cost of $27 per survey completion. Detailed keyword phrases were most effective, and geographical variation was notable. The results show that PPC advertising can be cost effective for the recruitment of participants to studies on a specialized clinical topic. Moreover, because PPC ads can be restricted to small geographic areas, online advertising may also be cost effective for making psychological services known to potential local clients.
- ItemOpen AccessAge of child obsessive-compulsive disorder onset and its relation to gender, symptom severity, and family functioning(2015-03-17) Kenyon, Katherine M.; Eaton, Warren O.
- ItemOpen AccessAge-of-walking as a predictor of childhood vocabulary(Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal., 2011-04) Schultz, Jennifer N.; Eaton, Warren O.
- ItemOpen AccessAnalyzing age of milestone attainments from daily checklist recordings using SAS/STAT® procedures(2013-04-12) Eaton, Warren O.; Bodnarchuk, Jennifer L.The ages at which children first reach developmental milestones like sitting, crawling, or walking display substantial child-to-child variability that may reveal the operation of important developmental processes. Survival analysis (also called event-history analysis) is well suited for such data because it is designed to assess time-situated events characterized by a qualitative change from one discrete state to another (e.g., from not walking to walking). Multiple definitions of state changes are possible and deserve study, but their implementation from daily recordings is computationally intensive. The SAS/STAT® procedure Expand can efficiently convert raw milestone data into a format for analysis with the SAS Lifereg procedure, one of several survival analysis procedures. This report comprises an annotated SAS program for the conversion of multiple daily checklist recordings into variously defined events suitable for input into an illustrative survival analysis.
- ItemOpen AccessDoes crawling attainment predict the appearance of proto-declarative pointing? An age-of-attainment method using survival analysis.(Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal., 2011-04) Lall, Debra I. K.; Eaton, Warren O.
- ItemOpen AccessExamining Western Elimination Communication Practices and Outcomes : An Online Survey(2014-05-06) Lee, Janelle Boram; Soderstrom, Melanie; Eaton, Warren O.
- ItemOpen AccessInfant flat head syndrome : unexpectedly common, early appearing, and multi-national(2015-03-17) Eaton, Warren O.; Pirlog, Ioana.
- ItemOpen AccessIs online data collection a useful approach for studying second-order false-beliefs?(Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal., 2011-04) Froese, K. A.; Glenwright, M. R.; Eaton, Warren O.
- ItemOpen AccessAn overlooked milestone : is age of sitting foundational in predicting age of onset of proto-declarative pointing?(2013-04-16) Lall, Debra I. K.; Eaton, Warren O.Infant pointing to engage another’s attention demonstrates social understanding and predicts later language accomplishments. Crawling onset is thought to predict such pointing because self-locomotion facilitates perspective taking and self-initiated social engagement. Early crawlers point more than age-matched late crawlers, but this evidence for the role of self-locomotion is weakened by broad age-matching. Co-variation in the ages of onset for both crawling and pointing could also be due to shared underlying gross motor development. If locomotion is the active predictive ingredient in the crawl-point relation, the predictive potency of crawling should be largely independent of prior non-locomotor sitting onset. Longitudinally extracted ages of onset for sitting, crawling, and pointing were available for 312 infants. 30% of them did not show the expected sit-crawl-sequence, which rules out crawling as a necessary prerequisite for pointing. For the remaining 258 babies, crawling remained a significant predictor of pointing even after sitting, which was a weaker predictor, was accounted for. Self-locomotion may be important for the development of pointing, but it isn’t the sole active ingredient.
- ItemRestrictedParent reported child deception: the online preschooler lie scale (OPLS)(Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, 2011) Froese, Kimberly A.; Eaton, Warren O.; Glenwright, MelanieGenerally viewed as a negative behavior, child lying is a cognitive accomplishment that requires awareness of others’ thinking. In developing a measure of the breadth of a child’s lie repertoire, we recruited an online, diverse, cross-cultural sample of 179 parents to answer questions about family demographics, parent personality, and the types of lies told by their child. Nine items that were internally consistent and positively correlated with age were summed to create the Online Preschooler Lie Scale score. OPLS scores’ developmental identity remained evident even in the face of many competing demographic factors. The breadth of a child’s lying repertoire is a marker for developmental advance, and it can be assessed with convenient online methods.
- ItemOpen AccessParticipant recruitment in an online world: using blog comments and forum posts.(2011) Eaton, Warren O.; Lewycky, Samantha T.The recruitment of participants to online research can be difficult when they must meet restrictive requirements, a situation we faced in recruiting the parents of 2-month-olds. Here we describe a new method, blog commenting, and compare it to the more common online technique of posting recruitment information on parent-oriented online forums. In the blog method, we searched blogs for infant-specific terms and phrases; we then read entries from those retrieved blogs and identified ones written by a parent of an appropriately aged infant. We then posted to the blog a comment in which we invited the parent to participate and to visit our research web site. Rates of study completion and most participant characteristics did not differ for blog- and forum-recruited participants. We discuss the particular strengths and weaknesses of blog recruiting and conclude that it is well suited for topics that people care to write about.
- ItemOpen AccessPredicting child safety practices: maternal age as an overlooked variable(Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal., 2011-04) DeJaeger, Amy E.; Eaton, Warren O.