Emerging issues in paediatric health research consent forms in Canada: working towards best practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obtaining a research participant's voluntary and informed consent is the bedrock of sound ethics practice. Greater inclusion of children in research has led to questions about how paediatric consent operates in practice to accord with current and emerging legal and socio-ethical issues, norms, and requirements.

Methods

Employing a qualitative thematic content analysis, we examined paediatric consent forms from major academic centres and public organisations across Canada dated from 2008-2011, which were purposively selected to reflect different types of research ethics boards, participants, and studies. The studies included biobanking, longitudinal studies, and gene-environment studies. Our purpose was to explore the following six emerging issues: (1) whether the

SUBMITTER: Dove ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571865 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature