Payments to children and adolescents enrolled in research: A pilot study.
Iltis, A.S., DeVader, S., & Matsuo, H. (2006). Payments to children and adolescents enrolled in research: A pilot study. Pediatrics, 118(4), pp. 1546–1552. In this paper the authors share the results of a survey of researchers who have led paediatric health and medical research regarding whether the child participants and/or their parents received any form […]
Ethical and practical concerns in developing payment policies for research involving children and adolescents.
Iltis, A. S., Matsuo, H., & DeVader, S. R. (2008). Currents in contemporary ethics: Ethical and practical concerns in developing payment policies for research involving children and adolescents. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 36(2), pp. 413–418. In this paper the authors propose a structure for payment policies for ethical research involving children in health […]
Institutional review boards’ attitudes towards renumeration in paediatric research: Ethical considerations.
Flege, M.M. & Thomsen, S.F. (2017). Institutional review boards’ attitudes towards renumeration in paediatric research: Ethical considerations. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 53(12), pp. 1149-1151. In this article the authors explore the attitudes of IRBs towards payment and compensation in paediatric health research, in an effort to find the ethical balance between ensuring recruitment […]
An examination of incentive strategies to increase participation in outcomes research for an adolescent inpatient unity.
Ha, C., Madan, A., Long, T. A., & Sharp, C. (2016). An examination of incentive strategies to increase participation in outcomes research for an adolescent inpatient unity. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 22(3), pp. 250-256. In this paper the authors wanted to track the progress of young people discharged from in-patient psychiatric treatment. Maintaining young people’s […]
Contrasting views of risk perception and influence of financial compensation between adolescent research participants and their parents.
Wiener, L., Viola, A., Wilfond, B., Wendler, D., & Grady, C. (2014). Contrasting views of risk perception and influence of financial compensation between adolescent research participants and their parents. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 10(1), pp. 49-58. In this paper the researchers interviewed a sample of 177 adolescents and a parent. Discordance […]
The effect of financial compensation on willingness to supply a child’s blood sample: A randomised control trial.
Acharya, Y., Norton, E.C., & Lumeng, J.C. (2017). The effect of financial compensation on willingness to supply a child’s blood sample: A randomised control trial. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 40(3), pp. 359-371. In this paper the authors explore the impact of compensation, while seeking to strike a balance between compensation and coercion. They identify […]
More for Children: Rights-based methodology for research with children about poverty.
Bessell, S. and O’Sullivan, C. (2024). More for Children: Rights-based methodology for research with children about poverty. Canberra: The Children’s Policy Centre, The Australian National University. More for Children is a program of transformative research that is building our understanding of children’s experiences of poverty to bring change and, ultimately, contribute to ending child poverty […]
Research with children: Balancing protection and participation.
Bessell, S. (2024). Research with children: Balancing protection and participation. In Smyth, B.M., Martin, M.A., & Downing, M. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia. (Chapter 26). Routledge: London. ebook ISBN: 9781003319733. Abstract: Over the past three to four decades there has been a dramatic increase in research involving children […]
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience.
Dimopoulos, G., Horley, K., Anderson, T., & Liam. (2024). Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience. Childhood, 31(1), pp.369-389. Abstract: Researching with children and young people on topics that are considered to be ‘sensitive’, such as family violence, trauma and abuse, continues to be challenging. But […]
Taking the perspective of the child in the light of micro-ethical issues: Reflections from a home-based ethnographic research.
Chapeau J. & Join-Lambert, H. (2023). Taking the perspective of the child in the light of micro-ethical issues: Reflections from a home-based ethnographic research. Children and Youth Services Review, 155, Art No: 107145. Abstract: This article draws from ongoing PhD research investigating an innovative child protection practice in France called “at-home placements.” While the researcher […]