Engaging with children in research: Theoretical and practical implications of negotiating informed consent/assent

At the outset of an ethnographic inquiry, we navigated national and international resources to search for theoretical and practical guidance on obtaining parents and children’s informed consent/assent. While much theoretical guidance debating ethical issues to children’s participation in research wa...

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Authors: Lambert, Veronica (Author) ; Glacken, Michele (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Sage 2011
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 18, Issue: 6, Pages: 781-801
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Book review
B Consent
B Parents
B Research
B Children
B Assent
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Summary:At the outset of an ethnographic inquiry, we navigated national and international resources to search for theoretical and practical guidance on obtaining parents and children’s informed consent/assent. While much theoretical guidance debating ethical issues to children’s participation in research was found, a paucity of published papers offering practical guidance on assent processes and/or visual representations of child assent forms and information sheets was discovered. The purpose of this article is to describe our experiences, both theoretically and practically, of negotiating the process of obtaining informed consent and assent with parents and children for a non-therapeutic qualitative research study. We hope this article instigates a platform for others to explicate their experience and contributes to the construction of a coherent body of knowledge which will clearly delineate important elements that must be considered when negotiating children’s agreement to participate in research.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0969733011401122