Adolescent Barriers to HIV Prevention Research: Are Parental Consent Requirements the Biggest Obstacle?
Autor: | Zaynab Essack, Daniel Reirden, Heidi van Rooyen, Catherine Slack, Nathan R. Jones, David Wendler, Seema K. Shah, Katherine Byron |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty Mandatory reporting Colorado Adolescent Parental permission Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) HIV Infections medicine.disease_cause South Africa 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans Parental Consent 030212 general & internal medicine Child Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Descriptive statistics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease United States Psychiatry and Mental health Vignette Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Parental consent Psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Adolescent Health. 67:495-501 |
ISSN: | 1054-139X |
Popis: | Purpose One third of people newly living with HIV/AIDS are adolescents. Research on adolescent HIV prevention is critical owing to differences between adolescents and adults. Parental permission requirements are often considered a barrier to adolescent enrollment in research, but whether adolescents view this barrier as the most important one is unclear. Methods Adolescents were approached in schools in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and at a sexually transmitted infection clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Aurora, Colorado. Surveys with a hypothetical vignette about participation in a pre-exposure prophylaxis trial were conducted on smartphones or tablets with 75 adolescents at each site. We calculated descriptive statistics for all variables, using 2-sample tests for equality of proportions with continuity correction. Statistical significance was calculated at p Results Most adolescents thought side effects (77%) and parental consent requirements (69%) were very important barriers to research participation. When asked to rank barriers, adolescents did not agree on a single barrier as most important, but the largest group of adolescents ranked parental consent requirements as most important (29.5%). Parental consent was seen as more of a barrier for adolescents in South Africa than in the United States. Concerns about being experimented on or researchers’ mandatory reporting to authorities were ranked much lower. Finally, most (71%, n = 106) adolescents said they would want to extra support from another adult if parental permission was not required. Conclusion Adolescents consider both parental permission requirements and side effects important barriers to their enrollment in HIV prevention research. Legal reform and better communication strategies may help address these barriers. |
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