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No News is Bad News

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  • Jennifer B. Unger
  • Peggy Gallaher
  • Paula H. Palmer
  • Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
  • Dennis R. Trinidad
  • Steven Cen
  • C. Anderson Johnson

Abstract

Schools offer a convenient setting for research on adolescents.However, obtainingactive written parental consent is difficult. In a 6th-grade smoking study, students were recruited with two consent procedures: active consent (parents must provide written consent for their children to participate) and implied consent (children may participate unless their parents provide written refusal). Of 4,427 invited students, 3,358 (76%) provided active parental consent, 420 (9%) provided active parental refusal, and 649 (15%) provided implied consent (parental nonresponse). The implied consent procedure recruited more boys, African Americans, students with poor grades, and smokers. This dual-consentprocedure is useful for collecting some limited data from students who do not provide active consent or refusal .

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  • Jennifer B. Unger & Peggy Gallaher & Paula H. Palmer & Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati & Dennis R. Trinidad & Steven Cen & C. Anderson Johnson, 2004. "No News is Bad News," Evaluation Review, , vol. 28(1), pages 52-63, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:28:y:2004:i:1:p:52-63
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X03254421
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