We encourage you to design your study with a plan for data sharing. Contact the Child Trauma Data Archives team at any point in this process about your plans to contribute your dataset to the PACT/R or CTPT Data Archive at the conclusion of your study.

To prepare for data sharing:

• Conduct your study with appropriate ethics board approval
• Include informed consent / assent that allows sharing of de-identified / anonymized data
• Organize your data and create a clear data dictionary
• Document your processes for deriving study variables from raw data
• Carefully document any modifications of standard measures
• Set up data files consistent with Child Trauma Data Archives data standards
  • variable names and formats
  • naming assessment time points