Questionnaire responses were considered to represent consent, and interviewees gave written consent.
Within the American tradition, this makes approval voting a superior way to vote; it more accurately represents the consent of the governed, giving truer expression to the Lockean vision that inspired our Founding Fathers.
That high-schoolers are then going to go discuss the legalese with their moms and dads so that they can truthfully "represent" parental consent?
Samples were obtained from 32 535 subjects, representing a consent rate of about 60%.
At completion (April 2005), biospecimens were obtained from 32 543 subjects, representing a consent rate of 60% in contacted subjects.
Respondents were assured that participation in the survey was voluntary, and the return of questionnaires represented informed consent.
Return of the questionnaire represented patient consent, which is the standard procedure in all national patient experience surveys conducted by the NOKC.
Between January 2000 and April 2005, we extended our biospecimen collection to all surviving cohort members and collected biospecimens from 32,575 participants, representing a consent rate of about 60% of surviving cohort participants at that time.
However, women are otherwise fully informed about the testing and subsequent follow-up and once a woman returns the kit with a pathology information form it will represent her consent to test her sample and undergo further appropriate management and use of data.
Parental consent can be "passive" or "active" and when conducting research with youth, deciding whether to obtain active versus passive consent represents an important ethical consideration.
