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Characteristics of Adolescents Who Provide Neither Parental Consent Nor Refusal for Participation in School-Based Survey Research
Jennifer B. Unger
Peggy Gallaher
Paula H. Palmer
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Dennis R. Trinidad
Steven Cen
C. Anderson Johnson
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Schools offer a convenient setting for research on adolescents.However, obtainingactive written parental consent is difficult. In a 6th-grade smoking study, students were recruited with two consent procedures: active consent (parents must provide written consent for their children to participate) and implied consent (children may participate unless their parents provide written refusal). Of 4,427 invited students, 3,358 (76%) provided active parental consent, 420 (9%) provided active parental refusal, and 649 (15%) provided implied consent (parental nonresponse). The implied consent procedure recruited more boys, African Americans, students with poor grades, and smokers. This dual-consentprocedure is useful for collecting some limited data from students who do not provide active consent or refusal.
Key Words: adolescence • nonparticipation bias • response rates • school-based research
Evaluation Review, Vol. 28, No. 1,
52-63 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X03254421
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