Parental consent in adolescent substance abuse treatment outcome studies

Abstract No systematic review has focused on parental consenting procedures used in adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes research. To address this gap, we examined parental consenting procedures in adolescent outcome studies ( n = 34) published between 1980 and 2007. Although parental conse...

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Published in:Journal of substance abuse treatment 2009-10, Vol.37 (3), p.298-306
Main Authors: Smith, Douglas C., Ph.D, Boel-Studt, Shamra, B.S, Cleeland, Leah, M.S.W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Alcohol abuse
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical outcomes
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic - methods
Consent
Desintoxication. Drug withdrawal
Drug abuse
Humans
Informed consent
Medical sciences
Methodology. Experimentation
Miscellaneous
Parental consent
Parental Consent - statistics & numerical data
Parents
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research Design - statistics & numerical data
Risk behaviour
Risk-Taking
Substance abuse
Substance abuse treatment
Substance-Related Disorders - rehabilitation
Systematic review
Techniques and methods
Teenagers
Treatment Outcome
Treatments
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Summary:Abstract No systematic review has focused on parental consenting procedures used in adolescent substance abuse treatment outcomes research. To address this gap, we examined parental consenting procedures in adolescent outcome studies ( n = 34) published between 1980 and 2007. Although parental consent was required in 89% of adolescent treatment outcome studies we reviewed, consenting procedures were not routinely reported. We argue that parental consenting procedures should be routinely reported as a methodological feature of adolescent treatment outcome studies and, given concerns about sample bias in adolescent risk behavior research when parental consent is required, encourage outcomes researchers in this area to prospectively study the impact of consenting procedures on both the study participation rates and substance use reporting.
ISSN:0740-5472
1873-6483
DOI:10.1016/j.jsat.2009.03.007