Get involved in research: are you a parent or caregiver of an infant aged 0-17 weeks?

Get involved in research: are you a parent or caregiver of an infant aged 0-17 weeks?

  • 27 June 2025
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Researchers at the University of Southampton are inviting parents and caregivers of young infants to take part in a research study to help prevent food allergy in babies. This research is part of a doctorate project led by Karen Wright, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and supported by the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Southampton.

Researchers want to understand your experiences and views about feeding your baby and feeding foods to babies that may cause food allergy. They hope to include as many parents as possible to represent the experiences and views of a wide range of people.

If you choose to take part, you will be asked to complete a consent form and a questionnaire about your family background, including ethnicity, family history of allergy, age, and gender of your baby, how they have been fed, and if your baby has medically diagnosed eczema or food allergies. This should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You will then be asked to complete several online questionnaires (you can complete them by telephone with the researcher, or on paper if you prefer) when your baby is at a specific age.

By sharing your views and experiences of feeding your baby you may influence support and information given to parents in the future to help prevent food allergy.

Please note, if you find any question upsetting, you can stop completing the questionnaire at any time.

Please see the invitation below and visit the following link to find out more:

Participant Information Sheet