Vol 4 (NS), Issue 4 Date of Publication: November 06, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2019.063

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Why parents consent to their children’s participation in genetic research: A study of parental decision making

Sunita Kumari
Triptish Bhatia
Nagendra N Mishra
Nupur Kumari
Sreelatha S Narayanan
Deepak Malik
Smita N Deshpande
Abstract:
Parents need to be asked to provide informed consent on behalf of their child for participation in genetic research. Decision making for such parents is difficult because ethical challenges in paediatric genetic research studies are different from similar adult studies. This paper focuses on interviews conducted with parents who were asked to consent to their children’s participation (or not) in a genetic research study of intellectual disability and/or autism.


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