Parental Consent and Adolescent Risk Behavior Research

Tigges, Beth Baldwin

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2003.00283.x

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“…The sample size and opportunistic nature of sampling is a further limitation that prevents us from making firm inferences about the representativeness of our final sample. Conducting alcohol research with under 16s is challenging for many reasons, including the requirement to gain parental as well as child consent (Tyler & Davies, 2013); this can limit the potential pool of respondents (Tigges, 2003), and may also mean that confidentiality is doubted. Whilst the study has good internal validity, the potential generalizability of the results to other population groups is unclear.…”

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Age differences in alcohol prototype perceptions and willingness to drink in UK adolescents

Davies

Martin

Foxcroft

2015

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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Using the Prototype Willingness Model (PWM) as a framework, this study sought to explore the relationship between prototype perceptions, willingness and alcohol consumption in a sample of adolescents in the United Kingdom. Adolescents aged 11-17 were asked about their alcohol prototype perceptions, willingness to drink, intentions, alcohol consumption, drunkenness and harms using a cross sectional online survey. Participants were recruited through opportunity sampling via schools and parents. The survey was completed by 178 respondents (51% female; 91 aged 11-15, 87 aged 16-17). Multivariate analysis revealed significant differences between participants aged 11-15 and 16-17 on PWM measures, even when experience with drinking was accounted for (p<.001). There were significant interactions (p<.001) between age and prototype perceptions; younger participants rated non-drinker prototypes as more favourable and more similar to the self than 16-17 year-old participants. Willingness and intentions interacted with age; both measures were similar in 16-17 year-olds, whereas younger participants scored significantly higher on willingness than intentions (p<.001). Three distinct scales of prototype descriptions were identified in principal components analysis.Characteristics related to sociability significantly predicted willingness to drink alcohol in the sample (p<.001). This study extends previous research by demonstrating that the PWM can provide a theoretical explanation of adolescent drinking in the UK. The results suggest that 11-15 year-olds may the most suitable age for an intervention that targets alcohol prototypes, with a focus on sociability characteristics.

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Age differences in alcohol prototype perceptions and willingness to drink in UK adolescents

Davies

Martin

Foxcroft

2015

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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“…Comparisons of students with active only to students with other forms of parental consent found the active consent group constituted a biased sample under-representing students who were male 7,8,13 , older 7 , less academically competent 8,14 , from minority groups 6,8,13 , absent more often from school 10,…”

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“…Response rates vary widely according to the form of consent required, the extent and mode of contacts with parents and as well as other factors such as the use of incentives. 2 Participation rates in health-related studies under passive consent conditions are often above 90%, [3][4][5][6] i.e. a minority of parents actively refuse permission for their child to participate.…”

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National Safe Schools Framework: Policy and practice to reduce bullying in Australian schools

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Epstein

Hearn

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Objective: Increasingly, researchers are required to obtain active parental consent prior to surveying children and adolescents in schools. This study assessed the potential bias present in a sample of actively consented students, and in the estimates of associations between variables obtained from this sample.Methods: 3,496 students from 36 non-government metropolitan schools completed an online baseline survey in 2010 as part of the Cyber Friendly Schools Project in Perth, WA. Students with active (35%) and passive (65%) parental consent were compared on a range of variables including demographic, bullying and social-emotional outcomes. The moderating effects of consent status on associations between the bullying and other outcomes were tested. Results:The students with active parental consent were underrepresented among those students involved in problem behaviours such as bullying others, they were also more likely to have lower prosocial scores and academic scores and live with one parent who was older than other parents.. Consent status was found to be a significant moderator of the associations between bullying victimisation and certain social-emotional variables. Conclusions and Implications:Active only parental consent leads to biased samples and estimates of associations between outcomes of interest. Strategies to boost response rates to levels sufficient to warrant the conduct of the research are labour-intensive and costly, and the obtained samples are still likely to be biased. For low risk research, such as the completion of health surveys, rigorous active-?passive consent procedures which result in higher participation rates, lower costs and reduced burden on teachers and schools, are preferred.

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“…Tiggs's study in the United States (2003) found that, when passive parental consent is sought in school based research on adolescent risk behavior, parental permission is typically obtained for 30 percent to 60 percent of those sampled, compared to 93 percent to 100 percent when passive consent is relied on (Tiggs, 2003). Obtaining verbal consent over the phone, as opposed to written consent, is another approach which is considered ethically compliant and one which is effective in encouraging parents to be more responsive (Sime, 2008).…”

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“…It may bias the sample towards parents who are easier to access and reach, youth who have a good relationship with their parents and have fewer behavioral problems (Moolchan and Mermelstein, 2002). A study in the United States, which synthesized the literature related to the use of parental consent in school-based research on adolescent risk behavior, found that students who secured the consent of their parents were more likely to be female, white, from intact homes with more educated parents and less likely to smoke (Tiggs, 2003).…”

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Understanding the Ethical Requirement for Parental Consent When Engaging Youth in Research

Kennan

2015

Youth ‘At the Margins’

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Parental Consent and Adolescent Risk Behavior Research

Abstract: Health researchers must understand the methodological, legal, and ethical issues related to parental consent to produce high-quality, valid research about adolescents and to provide evidence for laws, policies, and regulations.

Cited by 131 publications

References 29 publications

Age differences in alcohol prototype perceptions and willingness to drink in UK adolescents

Age differences in alcohol prototype perceptions and willingness to drink in UK adolescents

National Safe Schools Framework: Policy and practice to reduce bullying in Australian schools

Understanding the Ethical Requirement for Parental Consent When Engaging Youth in Research

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