Open AccessWritten Parental Consent in School-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Research
Author(s) -
Catherine Mathews,
Sally Guttmacher,
Alan J. Flisher,
Yolisa Mtshizana,
Andiswa Hani,
Merrick Zwarenstein
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2004.037788
Subject(s) - informed consent , parental consent , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , settlement (finance) , psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , world wide web , computer science , payment
We examined the process of obtaining "active," written parental consent for a school-based HIV/AIDS prevention project in a South African high school by investigating (1) parental consent form return rates, (2) parents' recall and knowledge of the research, and (3) the extent to which this consent procedure represented parents' wishes about their child's involvement in the research.