Thank you for your interest in participating in this study regarding your community! You are invited to participate in a research study on Mountain House and the reasons as to why this community is growing as fast as it is. Particularly, this research study will focus on the demographic factors, pushes, and pulls that bring this community together as a unique form of urban growth in the San Joaquin Valley. You will be asked to participate in a thirty minute semi-structured interview where you will be asked a series of questions regarding your life in Mountain House and the decisions you made that lead you to the community. For this study, between five and ten participants will be selected.  Each person signing up to the study will be assigned a number and will be randomly selected for participation. You may be invited to take part in a follow-up interview that will last approximately thirty minutes.

• In order to participate in this study, you must have permanent residence inside the community of Mountain House, California within the ZIP Code 95391.

• You must also be an adult of at least 18 years of age.

• You must be able to communicate in English.

RISKS & BENEFITS: There are no foreseeable risks to this study. We cannot and do not guarantee or promise that you will receive any benefits from this study. 

PARTICIPANT'S RIGHTS: If you have read this webpage and have decided to participate in this project, please understand your participation is voluntary and you have the right to withdraw your consent or discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.  The alternative is not to participate.  You have the right to refuse to answer particular questions.  The results of this research study may be presented at scientific or professional meetings or published in scientific journals.  Your individual privacy will be maintained in all published and written data resulting from the study.  

With your permission, the interview will be audio taped. If you do not wish to be audio taped, please indicate this to the researcher. 

With your permission, the interview will be videotaped. If you do not wish to be videotaped, please indicate this to the researcher.

With your permission, the tapes from this study will be used for transcription and analysis towards better understanding of common themes across interviews. If you do not agree with this, please indicate this to the researcher.

Identifiers might be removed from identifiable private information and, after such removal, the information could be used for future research studies or distributed to another investigator for future research studies without additional informed consent from you.

If you do not complete an interview, existing interview data collected will promptly be deleted and your personally identifiable information on the initial contact form will be deleted upon the completion of all interviews for this research, as if you were not selected for being interviewed.

PRIVACY:  To express your interest in this study, you will answer questions an initial contact form that will ask for various pieces of personally identifiable information.

The first three fields, first name, last name, email, and phone number, will only be used for contact purposes. This data will not be a part of analysis of interviews and will not be published in any paper. Your name, and any other names mentioned in the interview, will be replaced with pseudonyms, which will be used in discussion and in final written/reported results of this study.

The next six fields, Date Moved to Mountain House, Community Lived Prior to Mountain House, Job / Occupation, Month and Date of Birth, Race/Ethnicity, Hispanic/Latino Descent, are to be collected to connect your responses/stories to greater data trends available with publicly available information (HMDA data) regarding migration patterns regarding Mountain House. This data can also help drive more specific questions for the semi-structured interview format. When you are interviewed, the interviewer will have a sheet to take notes on which will contain information from the initial contact form which will altered or kept the same as described below:

• "Date Moved to Mountain House (MM/YYYY)" will be generalized in the paper/analysis to portions of a year, i.e. early 2006, summer 2006, late 2006

• "Community lived prior to Mountain House" will be generalized in the paper/analysis to a city, i.e. You mentioned you once lived in South of Market, San Francisco. It will be generalized to say you are a subject who once lived in San Francisco.

• "Job / Occupation" will be generalized in the paper/analysis to industry / general profession instead of titles or other specific information.

• "Month and Date of Birth" will be generalized for the paper/analysis to general decade-age ranges, i.e. mid-20s, mid 30s.

• "Race/Ethnicity" and "Are you of Hispanic or Latino descent?" will remain intact to the definitions as used in the 2020 Census across to the paper/analysis.

This simplified, generalized information will be used in the study paper to describe trends and interviewees.

The original, unprocessed personally identifiable information in this form will be completely deleted upon completion of the all the interviews. If you are not selected for an interview, your information entered in this form will be deleted upon the final selection of the ten participants for this study.

Tapes/recordings of the interviews will be deleted upon completion of the paper resulting from this study, however interview transcripts and interview forms (with their information generalized as described above for analysis) will be retained for archive indefinitely on an offline, encrypted storage medium.

Your data entered in the "initial contact form" will be stored on a Google Form and Google Sheet on an account managed by Stanford University. Privacy policies for Google are available at https://policies.google.com/. When you sign up for an interview, if you are selected for participation in the study, you will provide your name and email to the Calendly service to sign up for a slot for an interview. The privacy policy for Calendly is available at https://calendly.com/pages/privacy. Recording of the interview will be uploaded and transcribed by Zoom services. The privacy policy for Zoom is available at https://zoom.us/privacy.

If you choose to leave your interview early or terminate your participation in the study, your existing interview data will promptly be deleted and your personally identifiable information will be deleted, as if you were not selected for being interviewed.

QUESTIONS?: Contact Matthew Jumamoy at mjumamoy@alumni.stanford.edu 

INDEPENDENT CONTACT: If you are not satisfied with how this study is being conducted, or if you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at (650)-723-2480 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906, or email at irbnonmed@stanford.edu.  You can also write to the Stanford IRB, Stanford University, 1705 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

Learn more about your protections in human subject research: https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/index.html

For your participation in an interview for this study, you will be a paid a minimum of $20.00 for your participation in this study.

Your compensation in this study will be considered based on your volunteered time and inconvenience. Thus, you will still be compensated if you opt to not answer all questions asked and/or if you decide to not complete the entire interview.

Funds for the initial interview section of this study will come out of a $200.00 total fund. The amount you will receive will be based on the final amount of participants in the study, however you will be guaranteed a minimum of $20.00. If there are less than 10 participants in the study, the amount you will receive will divide accordingly out of that total $200.00 fund. (Ex: If there are a total of 8 respondents, you will receive a gift card of $25.00)

If you are willing to have a follow up interview and you are selected for the follow up interview, a second round of paid interviews will occur where you will be paid, at minimum, an additional $20.00.

Funds for the follow up interview section of the study will come out of a $60.00 total fund. The amount you will receive will be based on the final amount of follow-up interviews conducted.  (Ex: If there are a total of 2 follow up interviews, you will receive a gift card of $30.00)

You will have an option of a Target or Walmart digital gift card that will be sent to your e-mail address.

Signups will close within seven days of posting of the first public advertisement or whenever the signups will reach 20 signed up participants, whichever will come first. If there are less than 5 signed up at the conclusion of seven days, further time may be added to reach out further to the community.

Once signups are completed, participants will be randomly selected and chosen to participate in the study. You will be notified via email and/or phone that you have been selected for the study.

If you are selected, you will have five days to select a meeting time upon notification of your selection before you are automatically dropped from this study.

The interviews will be available for setting up most weekdays and weekends roughly between August 30, 2021 and September 24, 2021. This time period may be earlier or later depending on progress of the study.

At the conclusion of your first interview, you will be asked if you are willing to participate in a follow-up interview. If you are interested, you may be selected and will be individually contacted about the follow-up interview. Compensation for the follow-up interview is listed above.

Once all interviews have been completed, the funds for participation will be divided and distributed with the gift card you indicated upon conclusion of your interview. Gift cards will be distributed no later than September 24, 2021 for initial interviews and November 1, 2021 for follow-up interviews.

If you are ready to participate in this study, click the sign up button and fill out the initial contact form!

Sign ups are now closed. Thank you for your interest!

Sign ups were open from Saturday, July 31st 12:17 PM PST to Saturday, August 7th at 12:17 PM PST.

[Notice posted 8/7/2021 12:17 PM PST]

If you have been already selected to participate in this study by email and/or phone, please select the link below to sign up to a meeting slot.

Sign ups for interviews are closed. Thank you for your interest!

Sign ups for interviews were open from Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 11:00pm PST to Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 11:59pm PST.

[Notice posted 8/13/2021 12:00 AM PST]