Friday, September 27, 2002: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM | |||
Closing the Gap in Research: Recruiting and Retaining Children and Adolescents | |||
| The theme of this symposium is "Effective Strategies for Involving Children and Adolescents in Research". The purpose of this symposium is to provide the audience with an overview of unique characteristics of children and adolsecents that require that different approaches be used to recruit children and adolescents for clinical research, for obtaining meaningful assent and consent to participate,and to retain them in a study over time. Additionally, the audience will hear about how children and adolescents from minority cultures may view research differently and who may be motivated by different strategies. | |||
| Organizer: | Marion E. Broome, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor and associate dean | ||
| Factors Influencing Children's and Adolescents' Involvement in Research Marion E. Broome, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor and associate dean | |||
| Recruitment of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Children and Adolescents into Research Studies Francine C. Jones, RN, PhD | |||
| Research Incentives for Children and Adolescents: Challenges and Ethical Issues Marti Rice, RN, PhD, associate professor | |||
| Retaining Adolescents and Families in Longitudinal Research Carol Dashiff, RN, PhD, professor and chair, PhD program | |||
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