Thanking families for research participation

Thanking our peer reviewers

At the beginning of each year, BiO takes the opportunity to thank its many reviewers for their contribution to the journal. The peer review process is the cornerstone of research publication in the biological sciences. As a publishing company, we are very aware that this vital component of the publication process is done, for free, by scientists worldwide. Whilewe can assist our reviewers in ev...

Childrearing and child participation in Jamaican families

Maintaining participation and momentum in longitudinal research involving high-risk families.

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to identify and describe strategies available to optimize retention of a high-risk research cohort and assist in the recovery of study participants following participant dropout. DESIGN AND METHODS The Maternal Lifestyle Study (MLS), which investigated the effects of prenatal substance exposure (cocaine or opiates) on child outcome, is a prospectiv...

Children’s participation – challenges for research and practice

I’m very grateful to Sheila Greene for inviting me here, and for those generous words of welcome. I was last in Dublin in 1978, so it’s certainly high time I returned. When I was last here, Jim Callaghan was the British Prime Minister, Jack Lynch was the Taoiseach, and personal computers were the next big thing. The following year was the International Year of the Child, in which Poland propose...

Payment for research participation: a coercive offer?

Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for r...