For participants who lacked mental capacity, we obtained assent from their consultee.
Belief, a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth.
Children who were not competent (who had moderate to severe learning or mental health disorders) to give assent were not included in the study.
Those with mental problems, unable to give assent or whose parents were unwilling to give consent, and not found at home after repeated visits (five times within a period of 1 month) were excluded.
We used an ethics committee "flagged" to deal with research on subjects who lack the capacity to consent (under the terms of the recently enacted Mental Capacity Act) and will gain assent from their carers.
Perhaps Seneca's depictions of the mental act that the Greek Stoics call assent appear in some sense richer than those of the earlier Stoics (without changing the substance of the theory), because Seneca likes to use metaphorical language.
Against Ockham's nominalistic account, under which the object of assent is a complex token mental sentence, Adam Wodeham, for example, maintained that the object of assent is not any sort of mental entity, nor even a thing at all, properly speaking, nor of course a nothing but rather a being the case (see Wood 2003, and Nuchelmans 1996, IV for further discussion of Wodeham and his contemporaries).
We included patients ages 8 years and over, with the ability to speak English or Swahili, and with the mental and physical capacity to give informed assent or consent and respond to the question probes.
[ 48] We suggest that rigorous prospective evaluation of current and new approaches is possible and desirable with use of consent and assent procedures guided by the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
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