Encouraging greater empowerment for adolescents in consent procedures in social science research and policy projects.
CO-CREATE study
HBSC study
adolescent consent
parental consent
Journal
Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
ISSN: 1467-789X
Titre abrégé: Obes Rev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100897395
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
revised:
23
07
2023
received:
15
06
2023
accepted:
25
07
2023
medline:
23
10
2023
pubmed:
27
9
2023
entrez:
27
9
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes the importance of allowing children and adolescents to influence decisions that are important to them following their age and maturity. This paper explores the principles, practices, and implications around using parental versus child/adolescent consent when participating in social science research and policy development. Experiences from two studies are presented: The Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth (CO-CREATE) and the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborative Cross-National study. Although parental consent may be an important gatekeeper for protecting children and adolescents from potentially harmful research participation, it may also be considered an obstacle to the empowerment of children and adolescents in case they want to share their views and experiences directly. This paper argues that evaluation of possible harm should be left to ethics committees and that, if no harm related to the research participation processes is identified and the project has a clear perspective on collaborating with the target group, adolescents from the age of 12 years should be granted the legal capacity to give consent to participate in the research project. Collaboration with adolescents in the development of the research project is encouraged.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e13636Subventions
Organisme : European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
ID : 774210
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Obesity Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of World Obesity Federation.
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