OBJECTIVES To analyse the parental understanding of informed consent information in first-line randomised clinical trials (RCTs) including children with malignant solid tumours and to assess parents' needs for decision-making. DESIGN Observational prospective study. SETTING 3 paediatric oncology centres in the Parisian region in France. PARTICIPANTS 53 parents were approached to participa...

The recent criminal negligence case against an Ontario teacher in the death of a student identified pertinent outdoor education administration and policy issues. This comparative study examined this two additional high profile Canadian fatalities, identifying common factors Using Accimaps to illustrate multiple contributing for each event, studies all exhibited contributory administrative undef...

We involved the parents of paediatric patients in the first part of the three-stage WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) process. Forty-two parents took part in the study. They came to the theatre suite with their child and into the induction room. Immediately before induction of anaesthesia they were present at, and took part in, the first stage of the three-stage SSC process, confirming with s...

We propose COP, a client-side system for protecting children’s online privacy and empowering parental control over children’s information disclosure with little manual effort. COP is compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and it implements acquisition of parental consent before any private information submitted online by children, e.g., registration to a Web service...

BACKGROUND Uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the UK is good, but there are pockets of the community who remain unprotected. Immunisation teams usually require written parental consent for a girl to receive the vaccine. Evidence suggests that uptake of the vaccine might be improved by promoting consent form return (if returned, forms are likely to grant consent). Incentivising ...

This thesis explores decision-making and perceptions of decisional quality in parents whose children have undergone newborn bloodspot screening. Newborn bloodspot screening is the programme through which newborn babies are screened for a variety of conditions shortly after birth. In the UK babies are screened for phenylketonuria (PKU), congenital hypothyroidism (CH), sickle cell diseases (SCD),...

BACKGROUND Children with cleft lip and/or palate frequently experience feeding difficulties that may place them at risk of malnutrition. Parents' negative response to these problems is associated with development of problematic behaviors in the child. This study aimed to investigate feeding behavior in children with cleft lip and/or palate and parental responses to these problems. MATERIALS A...

The authors investigate the relationship between family policy and women's attachment to the labor market, focusing specifically on policy feedback on women's subjective work commitment. They utilize a quasi-experimental design to identify normative policy effects from changes in mothers' work commitment in conjunction with two policy changes that significantly extended the length of statutory ...