About the Study
PURPOSE
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The purpose of the NOA study is to understand how children's temperament or personality traits can be adaptive, and how they can also sometimes become a risk factor for anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, or social difficulties. This knowledge will help to create new early interventions to prevent mental illness onset.
WHAT TO EXPECT
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Parent participants will be interviewed and fill out questionnaires. The child will complete activities both with a researcher and with the parent and will do computer activities while having an EEG. Then, participants will be contacted in 12 months and again in 24 months to complete 2 follow-up sessions.​
COMPENSATION
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Parent-child participants will be compensated up to $125 for the initial session and the child can win multiple
toys/prizes. Parents and children will also be compensated up to $100 at the 1 year follow-up session and $75 at the 2 year follow-up session.​
ELIGIBILITY
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Both children who are shy, obedient, perfectionistic, and sometimes self-critical and rigid in their ways of thinking and behaving AND children who do not exhibit these traits may be eligible! If you are interested and believe your child may be eligible, definitely reach out by using our contact form!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
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Contact us through the "contact us" page or contact Berklea at 314-273-5560 or bgoing@wustl.edu to sign up.​
