Meeting with the reference group

 
Around twice a year the EST-project group meets with its reference group. The group consists of representatives of institutions, organizations or groups of people that our research can be beneficial to. The EST project met with the reference group the 13th of December, for an update and discussion about our ongoing work

The meeting started off with an introduction to the latest publications from the EST project, as well as an overview of planned papers. As to the latest publications, you can read about some of them here, here, here and here. It’s been a productive year!

Further, we discussed the ongoing multiple single case (MSC) study, and aspects related to implementation of stuttering treatment that we have experienced in the study. This relates to parents conducting treatment at home, the dosage of treatment, the length of a clinic visit, and experiences with clinic visits online. The members of the reference group provided helpful insights to this matter.

This summer, two students at the master program in Psychology at the University of Oslo conducted interviews with parents in the MSC study before they started EST intervention. One of the students presented their work for the reference group. The interviews was included in their master thesis, which was just finished this fall. Hopefully the results will also be published in a scientific paper next year, the work is in progress from several of the EST team members. 

Finally, the upcoming RCT in the EST project was the topic of the discussion. Recruitment strategies and how to end a study was some of aspects we talked about.

The EST project would like to thank the reference group for helpful and motivating inputs to our work. Further, we would like to use the last blogpost of the year to wish all collaboration partners and readers a very Merry Christmas!

See you all in 2022!

On behalf of the EST-team,

Åse and Linn