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Parental permission was obtained for minors under the age of 18 years; 7- to 17-year-olds also provided documented assent.
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Additionally, consistent with the delineated IRB protocols for vulnerable samples (e.g., youth, justice-involved samples), our IRB-approved procedures precluded data collection on youth prior to the collection of documented youth assent and parent consent.
The local ethics committees in consultation with other local stakeholders should have a policy of the minimum age of consent and the types of studies that children younger than the age of majority can consent for, and the appropriate way of documenting that assent has been sought for example through audio or video tape as opposed to signatures [ 31].
The Lufeng authorities have refused to release Mr. Xue's body to relatives until they sign documents assenting that the death was due to natural causes, his daughter, Xue Jianwan, said in an interview on Monday.
The consent and assent processes were documented through the use of consent and assent notes.
This was a display of 32 photographs along with texts that documented Meier's successful assent of a cursed mountain of the Incas.
39 Of the 1485 children participating in CATCH, 274 (18.5%) were of an age (>5 years) typically considered suitable to allow meaningful engagement in assent discussions (95 of whom were in the elective arm), although only three forms documenting children's assent were received across both the elective and emergency arms of the trial.
The verbal consent was documented by the team on the assent form.
The assent process should be documented by the researcher not the child i.e. the child should not have to sign on a form similar to a consent form but the researcher should document it in the medical notes or case report forms that assent has been sought and a copy of the documentation should be filed in the investigator file.
Written consent will be obtained from parents; verbal assent will be obtained from youth and documented in writing by study staff.
As per BCM and TCCC guidelines, assent was obtained for each child who was judged 'capable of providing assent based on age maturity and psychologic state', and documented by the parent on the Patient Consent Form document using the standard BCM/TCCC language (Additional file 1).
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