Understood Consent Versus Informed Consent: A New Paradigm for Obtaining Consent for Pediatric Research Studies

Understood Consent Versus Informed Consent: A New Paradigm for Obtaining Consent for Pediatric Research Studies

All too often the informed consent process is viewed by members of research teams as a challenge of getting a parent or young person's signature on a form. Informed consent is, however, much more than a signed form. Rather, it is a process, often iterative, in which the parent or young person is given sufficient information about a study in order that they can make a truly informed decision abo...

Obtaining consent for neonatal research.

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Chapter 48. Procedures For Obtaining Informed Consent

Obtaining informed consent for genomics research in Africa: analysis of H3Africa consent documents

BACKGROUND The rise in genomic and biobanking research worldwide has led to the development of different informed consent models for use in such research. This study analyses consent documents used by investigators in the H3Africa (Human Heredity and Health in Africa) Consortium. METHODS A qualitative method for text analysis was used to analyse consent documents used in the collection of sam...

Informed consent: is it really understood?

Pre-operative counselling is an important part of the care that we give to our patients undergoing surgery. It ensures that the patients understand about their disease and the procedure that they are undergoing. This study was done with the objective of finding whether or not the patients do actually understand what has been explained to them. This is a prospective study done in the form of a s...