Bartha Maria Knoppers, Karine Sénécal, Joanne Boisjoli, Pascal Borry, Martina C Cornel, Conrad V Fernandez, Jasjote Grewal, Ingrid A Holm, Erin Nelson, Wim Pinxten, Mahsa Shabani, Anne Marie Tassé, Ma’n Zawati, Wright Clayton
Because children are presumed to have insufficient cognitive ability to consent to participate in research, pediatric research raises particular ethical and legal issues. For children who have not reached the age of consent stipulated by law or policy, parents (or legal guardians) must authorize their participation. This paper explores the issue of whether, to satisfy the ethical and legal norms of consent for research, participants in pediatric studies who attain the age of majority after their parents or guardians enrolled them in a study should be “recontacted” to obtain their consent to remain in the study...
November 2016: IRB