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Development of children's assent using a child centred approach

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posted on 2023-05-16, 20:52 authored by Karen FordKaren Ford, Sankey, J, Crisp, J
The call for researchers to obtain children's informed assent, prior to their participation in medical procedures and research, has increased over recent years and parallels moves to implement child-centred approaches to health care. This article describes the processes used to include children in developing a research information sheet and assent form for use in future research into children's understandings of their surgery and hospital experiences. The process involved primary school children aged between six and 12 years. Children worked in small groups to consider information to include in these documents. Their words were collated to construct the research information sheet and assent form. Working with children resulted in documents that were more understandable for their intended audience. The article includes discussion of 'language', 'understandability' and 'readability'; concepts that researchers seeking to work with children need to come to terms with if they are to obtain 'informed assent'.

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Publication title

Journal of Child Health Care

Volume

11

Pagination

19-28

ISSN

1367-4935

Department/School

School of Nursing

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Place of publication

London England

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Neonatal and child health

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