Evaluating Active Parental Consent Procedures for School Programming: Addressing the Sensitive Topic of Suicide Prevention

Changes to parental consent procedures in South Africa: implications for school-based adolescent sexual health research.

Differential attrition rates and active parental consent.

Active parental consent in survey research poses ethical and practical concerns. One common argument against the requirement of active consent procedures is its effect on participation rates. There is additional concern that higher risk groups may be underrepresented in the final sample. Empirical support of differential attrition, however, is lacking. In the current multisite longitudinal stud...

Evaluating Suicide Prevention Activities Evaluating suicide prevention activities is a complex task, and in a prison environment, the complexity

Evaluating suicide prevention activities is a complex task, and in a prison environment, the complexity increases when an effort is made to determine who is responsible for the suicide the individual or the prison system. This is assuming that the prison system, in itself generates suicide and is primarily responsible.(1) Although the system is not blameless, it is not necessarily a causal fact...

Parental consent for pediatric research.

The impact of child obesity on active parental consent in school-based survey research on healthy eating and physical activity.

Previous studies have shown that active consent procedures result in sampling bias in surveys dealing with adolescent risk behaviors such as cigarette smoking and illicit drug use. To examine sampling bias from active consent procedures when the survey topic pertains to childhood obesity and associated health behaviors, the authors pair data obtained from both active and passive consent procedu...