BIS Primary School Review
The BIS team has been awarded 3 separate grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council to see the BIS children as part of the BIS School Review. These grants are hard to get - less than 1 in 10 applications is successful - so getting 3 of them is a testament to how important the BIS research is and your family is a crucial part of team BIS!
What's involved:
- An initial telephone call (5-10 minutes)
- An online questionnaire for parents to complete (approx 60 minutes)
- A review with parent and child at the Child Health Research Unit (~1.5 hours)
- Growth measures
- Lung function
- Cardiovascular heath
- Vision assessment
- Blood test
- Urine and stool sample collection
- Wearing an accelerometer (physical activity monitor) for 1 week
The in-clinic review is designed so that you can drop your child to the BIS offices with our team and then return for the final 30 minutes where we will complete a blood test with you present. Y
ou are welcome to remain for the duration of the review, if you'd prefer and we can set you up with a desk if you'd like to do work, read or relax. We also give you a $10 voucher for Café Go to be spent however you like at the cafe close by. The review will take 1.5 hrs, which leaves enough time to give the kids breaks, snacks and rewards.
We can work around you and your child. We have reviewed over BIS 300 kids so far and the feedback we have received from families has been excellent.
For more information, download the School Review Information Booklet here
Please also read the Medicare and PBS Data Linkage Booklet here
The BIS Bus
The “BIS Bus”, a mobile laboratory funded by the Gandel Foundation and supported by Jayco, which enables us to visit BIS children at school.
The BIS Bus hit the road in early December 2019, and we have now visited over 19 local primary schools on the Bellarine Peninsula.
The convenience of the BIS Bus meant that 100% of participants enrolled at the school were able to be reviewed at the school, with little disruption to the children or their families. All of the BIS children were very excited to be aboard the welcoming BIS bus and enjoyed taking part in the study measures.
We can’t wait to see all the BIS babies as big school children over the coming years and the team are very excited to be rolling out the next wave of BIS.
If you would like to participate please call us on 0400 432 976 or email bis@barwonhealth.org.au