"⋯because I am something special" or "I think I will be something like a guinea pig": Information and assent of legal minors in clinical trials - Assessment of understanding, appreciation and reasoning

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Koelch, Micheal ^a   Singer, Hanneke ^a   Prestel, Anja ^a   Burkert, Jessica ^a   Schulze, Ulrike ^a   Fegert, Jörg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMOXETINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PLACEBO;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDIO RECORDING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETENCE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FAMILY RELATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING;

EID: 60849097260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-3-2     Document Type: Article

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