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In paediatric research, regulations may stipulate obtaining affirmative assent for participation from children above a certain age.
Participants aged 11 to 17 years – hereafter referred to as 'adolescents' – gave informed written or oral assent (at 14 years and above) and their parents signed a written informed consent.
Unconscious assent to these forces, over and above any rebellion against their moral values, caused most active minds in his day to conceal the fact of interregnum.
Matters of fact are open to observation and experience, and so all of the tests noted above for determining rational assent to propositions about them are available to us.
Information on the socio-demographic profile of the children was obtained from either of the consenting parent or legal guardian and assent for children 8 years and above.
Parents or legal guardians granted written permission and children 10 years old and above were asked for assent.
Finally, in a study involving children assent was obtained from children above 13 years only yet it should be children of age 8 and above as per national guidelines.
What did they assent to?
We cannot assent to it.
Written informed consent was taken from parents/guardians, assent was taken from children above seven years of age.
Children were only included in the study once informed consent was obtained from their parent and assent was obtained as detailed above.
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