What does the study involve?

If you decide you would like your child to take part, a member of the study team will ask you to complete:

1. A Parent/Guardian consent form. Older children/adolescents will also be asked to complete a Participant consent form. This shows that they also give their permission.
2. A contact information form so we can contact you about your child’s recovery.
3. A questionnaire about pain, activities and feelings, and very brief information about your child’s medical history. This should take about 5-10 minutes to fill in.

During your child’s recovery, we will have brief contact with you and/or your child by text message and/or email on four occasions (after six weeks, three months six months and one year).  We will ask questions about pain, activities, feelings, hospital attendances, and school attendance.

It is important that you try to complete the questionnaires with your child as soon as possible after they are received. If you have not completed the questionnaire after our first message, we will give you a reminder after a few days (by phone, text or e-mail based on your preference). If it is not completed after 1 week, or if we have any queries about the information you have already provided, we may contact you to ask the questions over the telephone.

We will ask you to provide contact details of up to two alternative friends or family members. This will help us contact you, if we are unable to get through. In the event that we are unable to contact you or your alternative contacts, we may contact your GP to collect information about your child’s recovery.

We will collect details of your child’s health information including relevant medical history and medications, your child’s dominant arm, details of their injury and how it occurred, clinic notes, radiographs, pathology reports, questionnaire responses and details of complications related to the injury or treatment.