Parental Consent for Adolescent Sexual Health Research: Whom Do We Leave Out?

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

Psychotherapy research: do we know what works for whom?

Clinical decision-making about suitability for psychological therapies is hampered by limitations of psychotherapy research and our lack of understanding of therapeutic mechanisms. Watzke et al's important randomised controlled study offers apparent validation for clinical judgement in relation to suitability for psychodynamic psychotherapy but also highlights the negative effects of unselected...

Parental consent for pediatric research.

Parental leave and child health.

This study investigates whether rights to parental leave improve pediatric health. Aggregate data are used for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. More generous paid leave is found to reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially where a causal effect of leave is most plausible. In particular, there is a muc...

Task and Social Information Seeking: Whom Do We Prefer and Whom Do We Approach?

Employee information-seeking behavior shapes the formation of organizational communication networks and affects performance. However, it is not easy to facilitate, particularly through information technology, and its motivations are not well understood. recognizing two broad categories of information—that is, task and social information—this study investigates and compares the antecedents of ta...