Teenage Pregnancy Research Report - 3p Consulting

If you feel uncomfortable or distressed because of the discussion you can speak to staff at the Migrant Resource Centre or with an experienced youth counselor at headspace on 6335 3100 or email headspace@cornerstoneyouthservices.com.au. If you choose to participate, your responses will be respectfully and carefully treated. Confidentiality guidelines will be discussed and agreed to with participants prior to any discussion and only first names will be used. Names will not be recorded. Your input to the discussion will be written down on an Ipad by one of the facilitators. You will have the opportunity to view and add to, or to change, how your input was recorded at any time during the focus group session. The information will be de-­‐identified and securely stored electronically on our server. The information will be destroyed after 5 years. To show our appreciation of your time in participating, we would like to offer you either an iTunes voucher or a phone credit voucher to the value of $10.00 If you have any questions about what we are doing or how the focus group will work please contact 3p Consulting on 6334 7028 and ask for Anne. This information sheet is for you to keep. We would really appreciate your involvement in this research. To participate please sign the following consent form and return it to your service provider. “This study has been approved by the Tasmanian Social Sciences Human Research Ethics Committee. If you have concerns or complaints about the conduct of this study, please contact the Executive Officer of the HREC (Tasmania) Network on (03) 6226 7479 or email human.ethics@utas.edu.au. The Executive Officer is the person nominated to receive complaints from research participants. Please quote ethics reference number [Hxxxxx].” Page 2 of 2 131