Furthermore, social influences reflected in the student's decision-making (parents, siblings, peers, friends from social networks, teachers, educational consultant, school psychologist and other counselling staff) and the most frequently used information sources are specified, and their significance is evaluated from the perspective of students as well as their parents.
A fundamental stage of adolescent development is the gradual transfer of decision making from parent to child that allows individuals to start taking responsibility for their own health (McCabe, 1996), and girls in this study were clearly at this stage.
Short contact times with the physician had the highest effect on satisfaction with "Child – Involvement in decision making" and "Parent – Information" (−12 and - 11 points, respectively) and the lowest effect on satisfaction with patient organization and practice facilities (−7 and −8 points, respectively).
In addition, this system facilitates the decision making of parents to take care of oral health needs of their children, instead of relying on the parents' individual motivation to seek care for them.
All teens in our sample reported that they were satisfied with their role in the decision making, and parents were also satisfied with the level of teen involvement.
This model highlights four research questions that will be empirically tested in an ongoing longitudinal study of medical decision making among parents of children with serious illness.
This conceptual model has led us to examine four research questions that we are investigating in our ongoing prospective longitudinal study of decision making among parents of children with life-threatening illness.
Further research is needed to understand whether the socioeconomic variation in rates of termination of pregnancy demonstrated here arises partly from differences in the communication process or the interpretation of risk and subsequent decision making by parents.
It may be best for the parents to leave children's spouses or the grandchildren out of the decision making, even if parents eventually set aside special gifts for them.
The distribution for involving parents in decision making showed that many parents did not participate actively.
