Please share with field directors and field students. We have all been affected by COVID 19. Here is an opportunity to share how your field practicum was affected by the shelter-in-place order. Thank you!

Invitation for Study

If you are a social work student who completed a field placement during a COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, you are invited to participate in a study of how your field placement experience was affected by that order.

Description of Study:  The goal of this study is to understand how the COVID 19 outbreak impacted social work students completing field placement during the pandemic. We are asking you to complete a survey, with an option to conduct an in-depth interview with the researchers via the zoom videoconferencing platform. The survey will take an average of 10-20 minutes to complete. There are no direct benefits for participating in this survey. Participation in this study is voluntary. Whether you choose to participate or not will have no impact on grades for any courses, placement evaluations, or any other benefit to which you are entitled. If you have any questions about this project, feel free to contact the Principal Investigator, Dr. Jennifer Withrow, at 918-269-1149, or jennfer.withrow@msj.edu

If you are interested in participating, please follow the link to the survey below:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SWKFieldandCOVID19

Study Details:

TITLE OF PROJECT: Understanding the Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Social Work Field Placements: A Student’s Perspective

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Name: Dr. Jennifer Withrow 

Email: Jennifer.Withrow@msj.edu

Phone number: 918-269-1149

IRB Institution: Mount St. Joseph University

IRB Protocol Number: S220-14

IRB contact: Dr. Tracy McDonough

IRB contact email: tracy.mcdonough@msj.edu

Consent Form posted in Survey Monkey:

DESCRIPTION OF STUDY:  The goal of this study is to understand how the COVID 19 outbreak impacted social work students completing field placement during the pandemic.

We are asking you to complete a survey regarding your field experience during the spring 2020 semester. The survey will take an average of 10-20 minutes to complete. There are no direct benefits for participating in this survey.

Electronic data will be secured in Dr. Jennifer Withrow’s password protected computer for seven years. As part of the survey your responses will be anonymous, and no IP addresses will be collected or associated with your responses. Downloaded data from Survey Monkey will be protected with SSL encryption. 

NOTE: Participation in this study is voluntary. Refusal to participate or discontinuation of participation will involve no penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. Participation in this study will not have any impact on your grades, courses, placement evaluations, or home institutions. No responses will be shared, in any form, with your home institution and/or field placement.

You consent to participate as a subject in this research investigation to be performed by or under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Withrow.  

You understand that you may withdraw from this research without prejudice at any time. You may skip questions that you do not wish to answer.

To participate in this study, you must be over the age of eighteen and enrolled in a field education course during the spring 2020 semester.

Finally, you understand that it is not possible to identify all of the potential risks in an experimental procedure, and I believe that reasonable safeguards have been taken to minimize both the known and the potential but unknown risks.  If you have any questions regarding this research or my participation in this research, you may contact the Principal Investigator listed above.

My Best,

Jennifer

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Jennifer Withrow, Ed.D., MSW

Sociology & Social Work, Department Chair

Social Work, Director & Assistant Professor

Mount St. Joseph University

5701 Delhi Road | Cincinnati, OH 45233-1672

513-244-3269 | Jennifer.Withrow@msj.edu