Inclusion Criteria:
Are you 18 years or older?
Are you a perinatal healthcare provider currently practicing in Canada?
Are you capable of answering a survey in English or in French?

If so, you are eligible to take part in this survey regarding perinatal healthcare providers and wildfire health promotion.

Summary of Research Project
This master’s thesis project is being conducted by Danika Paquette under the supervision of Dr. Karen Phillips, Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. The University of Ottawa Research Ethics Board has reviewed and approved the ethical aspects of this project (File # H-02-25-11204 - REG-11204). The primary goal is to document healthcare professionals’ perspectives on perinatal-wildfire health knowledge and experiences and to assess their ability to provide guidance related to wildfire-related perinatal health risks during consultations with perinatal patients.

Participation
Your participation in this study involves completing an online survey in English or French, which will take approximately 30 minutes. You will be asked to reflect on your knowledge, experiences, and perspectives regarding wildfire-related perinatal health risk counselling.

Benefits of This Study
This survey aims to understand how healthcare providers address and communicate strategies during prenatal visits to help pregnant individuals mitigate risks from wildfire-related air pollution in both hotspot and non-hotspot regions in Canada. The findings will inform public health professionals, healthcare practitioners, future education, and policy development. You may gain insights into perinatal wildfire health risks through the survey questions and resources provided and potentially enhance your capacity to offer wildfire risk guidance to patients.

Potential Risks Involved
You may experience emotional discomfort responding to questions related to your professional experiences with wildfires. A list of resources concerning psychological or emotional support is available at the end of this survey.

Confidentiality and Anonymity
The survey answers will be stored online in a password-protected survey account to be extracted with data analysis software. This questionnaire does not collect any personal identifying information; therefore, your responses will remain anonymous. Response data will be grouped with other participants’ responses and subject to data analysis. To minimize the risk of security breaches and to help ensure confidentiality, it is recommended that you use standard safety measures such as closing your browser when you have completed the study. The information you share will remain strictly confidential and will be used solely for analysis in this study. We will collect IP addresses to track potential fraudulent responses. However, IP addresses will not be used to identify individuals. Only the principal investigator (Danika Paquette) and the thesis supervisor (Dr. Karen Phillips) will have access to the data, which will be electronically secured.

Conservation of Data
As survey data contains no personal identifiers, anonymized electronic data (e.g., survey responses) will be stored indefinitely to be used in future publications. If you choose to enter the survey draw, emails used to enter the draw will be destroyed after the draw has been completed and closed. The thesis supervisor will be responsible for storing the data.
Voluntary Participation
Participation is completely voluntary. You may choose not to participate and may withdraw at any time. You do not have to answer any question you do not wish to answer. Although you may choose to withdraw at any time, due to the anonymous nature of the survey, once it has been submitted, it will not be possible to withdraw your data, as researchers cannot trace individual datasets.

Possibility to Enter a Draw
To thank you for your contribution to the research project, you will be given the option to enter your email in a draw to win one of five (5) $50 Tim Horton gift cards, regardless of whether you decide to withdraw from further participation in the research project. Any participants who start the survey will be able to enter the draw.

At the completion of the study, emails will be randomly selected from the group of participants who enter the draw. If the person cannot be reached by email within 14 days from the date of the draw, additional email(s) will be randomly selected from the pool of registered participants until the prize has been awarded.

Survey responses cannot be linked to participants who choose to register for the draw. The contact information they have provided will be kept confidential and then destroyed once the prizes have been awarded. We reserve the right to cancel the draw or cancel the awarding of the prize if the integrity of the draw or the research or the confidentiality of participants is compromised.

If you have any questions regarding the study, you may contact Danika Paquette (MSc candidate) at dpaqu088@uottawa.ca or Dr. Karen Phillips (thesis supervisor) at Karen.Phillips@uottawa.ca.

Any information requests or complaints about the ethical conduct of the project may be addressed to:
University of Ottawa-Office of Research Ethics and Integrity
550 Cumberland, Room 154, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5
613-562-5800 ext. 5387 or ethics@uottawa.ca

Question Title

* 1. Consent
Please select your choice below.

Clicking on the "agree" button below indicates that:
• You have read and understood the information for participants taking part in this survey.
• You understand that taking part in this study is voluntary, and that you may withdraw from the study at any time.
• You know whom to contact if you have any questions about the study.
• You are 18 years or older.

Please print or save a copy of this consent form for your personal records.

If you do not wish to participate in the research study, please decline participation by clicking on the "disagree" button.

The information we receive will be of great use in our research study.

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