Testing the FLASHE Survey

The National Cancer Institute s (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), Behavioral Research Program (BRP) proposes conducting formative research as an integral part of the development of a new data collection instrument, the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating (FLASHE) survey. Specifically, NCI proposes conducting cognitive testing with the objective of identifying potential sources of measurement or response errors within the questionnaires. Many of the questions are new questions that have not been previously tested, or previously-used questions that have never been used with a teenage population.

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The DCCPS contractor, Westat, will be conducting the study. Participants for the cognitive interviews will be recruited from the general population, and will include dyads of a parent or caregiver, and his/her teenage child between the ages of 11 and 18. Neither the contractor who will be coordinating the research (Westat) or NCI employees will be eligible to participate in the cognitive interviews. Westat will recruit respondents using a variety of methods including use of Westat s current database of potential participants and advertising on CraigsList in the local DC area under the Jobs postings within the subheading Et Cetera. Westat's digital media team will reach out to 100 local DC area (including lower Pennsylvania) publishers such as mommy and papi bloggers, health websites, giveaway publishers, and Facebook and Twitter users.