Refusal to Participate
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: study design and baseline characteristics.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Intervention during the pre-psychotic period of illness holds the potential of delaying or even preventing the onset of a full-threshold disorder, or at least of reducing the impact of such a disorder if it does develop. The first step in ... Read more...

Post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in Nigeria.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Research participants may not adequately understand the research in which they agree to enroll. This could be due to a myriad of factors. Such a missing link in the informed consent process contravenes the requirement for an "informed" ... Read more...

Implications of the HIV testing protocol for refusal bias in seroprevalence surveys.

26 May 2009 BACKGROUND: HIV serosurveys have become important sources of HIV prevalence estimates, but these estimates may be biased because of refusals and other forms of non-response. We investigate the effect of the post-test counseling study protocol on ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refusal to Participate'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis: study design and baseline characteristics. 30 Aug 2009
• Post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in Nigeria. 30 Jul 2009
• Implications of the HIV testing protocol for refusal bias in seroprevalence surveys. 26 May 2009
• Behavior profile of family members of donors and nondonors of organs. 30 Mar 2009
• Developmental screening and assessment: what are we thinking? 30 Mar 2009
• [Learned societies and end of life...] 15 Mar 2009
• Teachers just say no to drug tests. 21 Feb 2009
• Social contact networks and disease eradicability under voluntary vaccination. 4 Feb 2009
• Parental vaccine refusal in Wisconsin: a case-control study. 30 Jan 2009
• [Factors that influence the prognosis for recovery in psychosocial risk families: the role of child resilience] 30 Jan 2009
• [Family-based drug use prevention: the "Familias que Funcionan" ["Families that Work"] program] 30 Jan 2009
• Drunk driving, implied consent, and self-incrimination. 30 Dec 2008
• [School refusal and psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence: findings from an outpatient sample of a psychiatric "school refusal ambulance"] 30 Dec 2008
• Reasons of refusal and drop out in a follow up study involving primigravidae in Pakistan. 30 Dec 2008
• Opting out increases HIV testing in a large sexually transmitted infections outpatient clinic. 20 Dec 2008
• Effectiveness of an opting-out strategy for HIV testing: evaluation of 4 years of standard HIV testing in a STI clinic. 20 Dec 2008
• [Beyond the diagnosis of a genetic disease, the question of informing the relatives] 4 Dec 2008
• Evaluation of case management services for lead poisoned children in Rhode Island. 29 Nov 2008
• Withdrawing from participating in a biobank--a comparative study. 29 Nov 2008
• Comparative study of depression and consent among brain death families in donor and nondonor groups from March 2001 to December 2002 in Tehran. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Refusal to Participate'

Definition: Refusal to take part in activities or procedures that are requested or expected of an individual. This may include refusal by HEALTH PERSONNEL to participate in specific medical procedures or refusal by PATIENTS or members of the public to take part in CLINICAL TRIALS or health promotion programs.

Descriptor UI: D045808

Alternative terms: Refusal to Participate; Participate, Refusal to;

Related Mesh Headings: Conscience; Patient Participation; Refusal to Treat; Treatment Refusal;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.373.476.850;

History Note: 2004; use DISSENT AND DISPUTES 2003