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| Title |
Consent and assent in paediatric research in low-income settings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-15-22 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Phaik Yeong Cheah, Michael Parker |
| Abstract |
In order to involve children in the decision-making process about participation in medical research it is widely recommended that the child's assent be sought in addition to parental consent. However, the concept of assent is fraught with difficulties, resulting in confusion among researchers and ethics committees alike. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 43% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| Thailand | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 139 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 137 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 26 | 19% |
| Researcher | 18 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 31 | 22% |
| Unknown | 33 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 10% |
| Psychology | 11 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 16 | 12% |
| Unknown | 39 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 October 2018.
All research outputs
#6,718,282
of 22,747,498 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#561
of 990 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#64,313
of 221,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#10
of 24 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,747,498 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 990 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 24 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its contemporaries.