ATTACHMENT L. Intro to MUSE Video Script

ATTACHMENT L:
MULTI-SITE IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION OF TRIBAL HOME VISITING (MUSE)
INTRODUCTION TO MUSE VIDEO SCRIPT

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Introduction to MUSE_FINAL
Slide 1: Thank you for joining me today to learn about MUSE, which stands for the Multisite
Implementation Evaluation of Tribal Home Visiting. My name is XYZ and I am a member of the MUSE
study team. Here is a photo of some of our team and that’s me over to the far right. I work for James
Bell Associates, and, along with our collaborators at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native
Health at the University of Colorado, we are conducting the MUSE study. Over the next few minutes, I
will tell you a little bit about the study so that you can consider enrolling in MUSE.
Slide 2: Your home visiting program is funded through Tribal Home Visiting which is a federal initiative of
the Administration for Children and Families. Tribal Home Visiting provides funding to tribal and urban
Indian communities for home visiting services. Your home visiting program is a partner on MUSE which
means you are eligible to participate. MUSE is a study about Tribal Home Visiting, not an evaluation of
your particular program. By participating in MUSE, you can help provide reliable information about
home visiting to: 1) Communities and professionals who are trying to build or improve home visiting
programs, 2) caregivers thinking about signing up for home visiting services and also 3) people who
make decisions about the Tribal Home Visiting Program and other programs like it.
Slide 3: Your voice is really important to MUSE. We know a lot about home visiting services, but most of
what we know is based on research from outside tribal communities. MUSE is designed to add the
knowledge of American Indian families to what we know about home visiting and its impacts. As a
participant, your story will be added to the stories of many other caregivers from tribal communities
throughout the US. By sharing your experience through MUSE, your story can help communities,
especially tribal communities, learn more about how to support families in raising healthy, happy and
thriving children.
Slide 4: As a partner of MUSE, your program has joined 16 other tribal programs across the U.S. Because
of this collaboration, your home visiting program can benefit from learning what other programs are
doing and help other programs learn from your community. As a partner on MUSE, your home visiting
program has had a say in helping to develop and choose which questions the study will ask and how the
study will go. Your home visiting program is also helping to make sure that the study respects local and
tribal practices and culture. Through this collaboration we can make sure that the information collected
in MUSE will be helpful to your community.
Slide 5: The MUSE study will teach us about: how home visiting programs are designed to meet
community needs, how home visiting services are being provided to families and what supports home
visiting program staff, like your home visitor, in providing these services to families in tribal
communities.
Slide 6: As a participant in MUSE you will be asked to share information about yourself, your family and
your experience with home visiting. Some of the information we will need for MUSE is already being
collected by your home visiting program and then with your permission, will be shared with the MUSE
study team. We may also use questionnaires and surveys to ask you questions. Answering these
questions will take as little as a few minutes and no more than 30 to complete. The questions will be
similar to other times you have been asked about your personal experience, like at a health fair, a day
care or at your doctor’s office. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. We just want to hear about your

experience. Your home visitor will ask you to do a MUSE study activity a few times per year for no more
than two years. You may also be asked if you would like to be interviewed for the study.
Slide 7: We have worked hard to make participating in MUSE as easy as it can be. You will fill out the
survey and questionnaires on an iPad after one of your home visits or at another time that may work
better. Someone from your home visiting program will get you set up and then give you privacy to
answer the questions on your own. Many people have a hard time reading questions or using mobile
devices. Please let your home visitor know if you think that might be the case for you and we will
provide another option for participating.
Slide 8: One really important thing to know is that taking part in MUSE is completely voluntary and
saying “yes” or “no” will not impact your home visiting services in any way. So, if you decide not to
participate, that’s okay! We want to include you in the study because we want to hear your story, but it
is not at all required. It is also important for you to know that if you decide to participate, no one at your
program will see your answers, including your home visitor. Your home visiting program has a flyer for
you that has a lot of the same information I just shared. Feel free to ask them any questions you may
have or use the contact information on the flyer to reach out to the MUSE team directly. Someone from
your home visiting program will check back in with you soon to see if you are interested in joining MUSE.
If you are, your home visitor will go through an informed consent process with you where you will hear
all the details about the study and your rights as a participant. If you are not interested, your home
visitor will log that and continue with your home visits as planned.
Slide 9: Thank you so much for spending these last few minutes learning about the MUSE study. We
hope you will consider joining us on MUSE. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions.
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The MUSE study is sponsored by The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation within The
Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.