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Positioning children’s voice in clinical trials research: A new model for planning, collaboration, and reflection

Positioning children’s voice in clinical trials research: A new model for planning, collaboration, and reflection
Positioning children’s voice in clinical trials research: A new model for planning, collaboration, and reflection
Following the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been considerable growth in research with children about health and services that affect them. Creative methods to engage with children have also been developed. One area where progress has been slower is the inclusion of children’s perspectives in qualitative research in the context of clinical trials or feasibility studies. Addressing this gap, this article discusses experiences of, and reflections on, the process of researching children’s views as part of a clinical feasibility study. The article considers what worked well and highlights remaining dilemmas. A new continuum of children’s engagement in research is presented, designed to assist researchers to make explicit the contingent demands on their research, and to suggest a range of techniques from within the broader fields of health, childhood studies, and education research that could be used to forward qualitative research in clinical contexts.
children, illness and disease, LIVED EXPERIENCE, Methodology, RESEARCH DESIGN, QUALITATIVE, SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS, United Kingdom
1049-7323
Lees, Amanda
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Payler, Jane K.
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Lees, Amanda, Payler, Jane K., Ballinger, Claire, Lawrence, Penny, Faust, Saul N. and Meads, Geoffrey (2017) Positioning children’s voice in clinical trials research: A new model for planning, collaboration, and reflection. Qualitative Health Research. (doi:10.1177/1049732317726760).

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Following the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been considerable growth in research with children about health and services that affect them. Creative methods to engage with children have also been developed. One area where progress has been slower is the inclusion of children’s perspectives in qualitative research in the context of clinical trials or feasibility studies. Addressing this gap, this article discusses experiences of, and reflections on, the process of researching children’s views as part of a clinical feasibility study. The article considers what worked well and highlights remaining dilemmas. A new continuum of children’s engagement in research is presented, designed to assist researchers to make explicit the contingent demands on their research, and to suggest a range of techniques from within the broader fields of health, childhood studies, and education research that could be used to forward qualitative research in clinical contexts.

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 July 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2017
Keywords: children, illness and disease, LIVED EXPERIENCE, Methodology, RESEARCH DESIGN, QUALITATIVE, SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS, United Kingdom

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Local EPrints ID: 415022
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415022
ISSN: 1049-7323
PURE UUID: 61be3751-8513-4f6d-9e82-6d0fd6a40390
ORCID for Saul N. Faust: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-7642

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Date deposited: 20 Oct 2017 16:31
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:44

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Author: Amanda Lees
Author: Jane K. Payler
Author: Claire Ballinger
Author: Penny Lawrence
Author: Saul N. Faust ORCID iD
Author: Geoffrey Meads

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