Adolescents as Research Subjects Without Permission of Their Parents or Guardians: Ethical Considerations
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2009, Journal of Substance Abuse TreatmentCitation Excerpt :With regard to parental consenting procedures, these studies exist at the crossroads of federal substance abuse treatment laws (42 CFR § 2) permitting adolescents to obtain treatments without parental consent and the research regulations (45 CFR § 46, the Common Rule) specifying under what circumstances minors may consent to their own research participation. Unfortunately, although much has been written about parental consent in the broader literature on adolescent risk behavior and medical research (Collogan & Fleischman, 2005; Fletcher & Hunter, 2003; Levine, 1995; Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2003; Wagener et al., 2004), no systematic review has documented parental consenting procedures in adolescent substance abuse treatment outcome studies. Given the recent growth in adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes research, as well as findings from adolescent risk behavior research that sample bias may occur when active parental consent is required, it is imperative that we understand how these studies have addressed the issue of collecting parental consent.
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