Why Do I Need to Sign It? Issues in Carrying Out Child Assent in School-Based Prevention Research Within a First Nation Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lola Baydala
Sherry Letendre
Lia Ruttan
Stephanie Worrell
Fay Fletcher
Fay Fletcher
Liz Letendre
Tanja Schramm
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 99-113
Description
Discusses the practice of, procedures for, and the ethics of obtaining a child`s consent when undertaking research that may affect the community. One of the recommendations discussed is that any child who signs should be surrounded by family or other community members.