What is the COVID-19 Parent Stress and Resilience survey about?

This anonymous survey has been assembled by University of Lethbridge and Building Brains Together researchers in order to learn about the experiences of parents and families in the Lethbridge area as they respond to the ongoing realities of Covid-19. This survey is a follow-up to the initial Covid-19 Parent Isolation Survey – some questions will be similar or the same in order to correlate responses between the two surveys. Your participation will contribute to understanding the evolving impacts that Covid-19 is having on our community.

What is expected of you?

The survey contains six categories of questions and will take approximately ten to fifteen minutes to complete. The questions cover five main areas: health, stress, children’s schooling, employment, resilience factors. There are basic demographic questions in order to allow for disaggregation of the data. You may choose to skip any question you prefer not to answer.

What are the anticipated uses of the data collected?

We are interested in understanding the experiences of families during the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope that the outcomes of this survey will help inform social supports and services in the Lethbridge area both for the remainder of the Covid-19 pandemic and in future emergency responses. Stress and resilience are both individual and community experiences and understanding the interplay of stress and resilience factors within a community can help professionals, community members, and individuals respond to stress and develop resilience. Results will be shared with local support and service organizations where appropriate to support targeted and streamlined service delivery. The findings may also be published in scholarly presentations and publications.

What are the risks and benefits of participating?

There are no anticipated risks from participating in this survey. You may gain some insight into your own family’s experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. This data may be used to help professionals to better support parents and families throughout the next several months of this pandemic and to provide better service delivery in the future. Participants will be eligible to enter a draw for a $50 Superstore gift card. The odds of winning will be 1 in 50. If you would like to enter the draw, please email buildingbrainstogether@gmail.com with “survey draw” in the subject line. You will be providing your information for the draw via email in order to protect the confidentiality of the survey – there will be no way for researchers to connect your email to your survey responses.

Thank you in advance for your participation.