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Understanding and retention of the informed consent process among parents in rural northern Ghana by Abraham R Oduro; Raymond A Aborigo; Dickson Amugsi; Francis Anto; Thomas Anyorigiya; Frank Atuguba; Abraham Hodgson; Kwadwo A Koram is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background The individual informed consent model remains critical to the ethical conduct and regulation of research involving human beings. Parental informed consent process in a rural setting of northern Ghana was studied to describe comprehension and retention among parents as part of the evaluation of the existing informed consent process. ## Methods The study involved 270 female parents who gave consent for their children to participate in a prospective cohort study that evaluated immune correlates of protection against childhood malaria in northern Ghana. A semi-structured interview with questions based on the informed consent themes was administered. Parents were interviewed on their comprehension and retention of the process and also on ways to improve upon the existing process. ## Results The average parental age was 33.3 years (range 18–62), married women constituted a majority (91.9%), Christians (71.9%), farmers (62.2%) and those with no formal education (53.7%). Only 3% had ever taken part in a research and 54% had at least one relation ever participate in a research. About 90% of parents knew their children were involved in a research study that was not related to m
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- Author
- Abraham R Oduro; Raymond A Aborigo; Dickson Amugsi; Francis Anto; Thomas Anyorigiya; Frank Atuguba; Abraham Hodgson; Kwadwo A Koram
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2000-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1472-6939)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)