Participate

Once a family has agreed to participate, a consent form will be obtained from both parents, which they will also sign on behalf of the child participant. Both parents will be asked to complete a questionnaire, as well as completing an abbreviated questionnaire for the child participating in the study. In addition, contextual information sheets will be completed for each urine sample provided for the study. The participants will be provided with instructions for providing a urine sample.

Samples for the IMAGE project will be collected by the researchers in the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway). Personal information will only be available to the research team in NUI Galway to contact you about participation and to deliver results. Coded personal data and urine samples and data will be available to the research team in NUI Galway and the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA), a specialized laboratory that will analyse the urine samples for the study.

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Participants will be asked to:

• Sign a consent form and sign on behalf of the child participating in the study (ages of 6 – 17 years old)
• Fill in the IMAGE project questionnaire. This is completed once, at the start of the project for each participant. An abbreviated questionnaire has been developed for the child participating in the study.
• Each participant (both parents and a child between the ages of 6 – 17) will be asked to provide one urine sample and complete a contextual information sheet in relation to the urine sample including the date and time of the sample and on the time since the last void and recent ingestion of food.

The researcher will send the participants a pack with urine sample containers and information for study participants. All information collected will be registered using a unique identifier number and will be strictly confidential.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the exposures to glyphosate among the Irish population and there may be some direct benefits to you.  By taking part you will be contributing to research, and you will get information on your personal exposure to glyphosate. In addition:

• You will receive information regarding your exposure to glyphosate and a summary of the overall results of the end of the study. 
• You will learn about glyphosate including how people are exposed, the typical exposure levels in the general population and potentially ways to avoid or reduce your exposure.
• Europeans will benefit from the collective results of this study, which will be used to understand the exposures of people to glyphosate and how to develop harmonized methods to measure exposures and these results may potentially assist in developing better chemical management policies across Europe.

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Yes, you can withdraw from this study at any time. Just contact any member of the research team (see ‘Contact us’).

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