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school counselors assigned to that specific school. The meeting will address the purpose of the study and the floor will be open to any questions the employees of the school may have regarding the study. This process will continue until the research team has been given permission by 24 high schools (8 in each socioeconomic area) to ask their students to participate in the study.
Once all 24 schools have been selected, the research team will give the schools a flyer to hand out to all of their female students that meet the ages constraints of the study (13-17). The flyer will have a time and date (Friday at 5:00pm in the gym) that potential participants and their parents can come and hear about the study and what participants will be asked to …show more content…

Parents and potential participants will also be informed that their results from the CDI 2, as well as their GPA, will be used in confidence. Nobody outside the study will be able to access this information. During the information session, potential participants will be informed that they will each be paid $10 for completion of the CDI 2. There will be an opportunity for potential participants to sign up if they are interested in completing the study after the information session commences. Interested students should have their parents/guardians leave their name and contact information (phone number and email address) After all the names have been entered in the simple sample generator, there will be a random selection from each school. The names selected will be contacted and asked if they would like the participate in the study. A member from the research team will first call each participants parent/guardian using the number that was provided at the information session. A member of the research team will also send an email telling the parent/guardian that their child has been selected and ask if they are still interested in being in the study. If the parent/guardian or …show more content…

All of the students who had a score that represents depressive symptoms will be in one group, and the students that did not have a score that represents depressive symptoms will be in another group. After separating the participants into two groups (those with depression, and those who don’t have depression), members from the research team will contact the schools again to get the participants GPA. Members of the research team will analyze the data from the CDI 2 and GPA. Those students with a GPA lower than 3.0 (B average) will be considered to have low academic achievement. Those with a GPA above a 3.0 will be considered to have an acceptable level of academic achievement.
Demographic Descriptive Analysis The data will be analyzed to identify any demographic trends. Socioeconomic levels of the participants will vary from low to medium to high since the schools selected for this study are from various socioeconomic areas of the state. This group of participants is representative of the general population of Maryland, the schools from which the participants attend are all scattered throughout the state (rural, city, suburb, poor, middle, wealthy) to control for location differences as well as socioeconomic differences.
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