Our study requires information about the stress, behaviour, and lifestyle choices of the biological mother when pregnant. As these questions can only be answered by the biological mother, we are unable to recruit children without their biological mothers.

No, you have the choice to enroll your child to participate. We encourage you to explain the study using our assent form (link) to your child so they can decide if they would like to participate or not. Your child is free to drop out of the study at any time by contacting us.

We are recruiting 1200 children who were in utero over the wildfire seasons of 2016 – 2023. Recruitment will continue until we reach 1200 participants. Your child can enroll at a later time if we are still recruiting. Please contact us to find out more.

Please encourage them to visit our website to complete the screening survey or contact our team to find out more.

We encourage you to complete the survey using our secure online platform. This makes sure your responses are automatically saved so you don’t have to complete the survey in one sitting. If you prefer to complete the survey over the phone or would prefer a paper form, please contact our study team.

The online survey will take about 90 minutes to complete. You can save your progress and come back to complete it at any time.

To compensate your time spent in this study, we will be providing an online gift card to participants.

In order for our scientists to determine the level of wildfire exposure experienced by your child, we need the postal codes and the name of the city where your child lived.

We encourage you to read through our consent form and explain the study to your child using our assent form. Both files can be found here.

If you have additional questions, please visit the Contact page to send us a message.