BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Low enrollment within pediatric research increases the
cost of research, decreases generalizability, and threatens to exacerbate existing health …

Background Conducting clinical trials with pre-term or sick infants is important if care for this
population is to be underpinned by sound evidence. Yet approaching parents at this difficult …

Introduction Parents struggle with being asked to participate in neonatal research. Past work
has largely failed to include views of minoritized parents, low-socioeconomic status parents …

Background Recruitment for neonatal clinical trials can be particularly challenging. Low
enrollment rates bias the research population and decrease generalizability of findings. We …

Objectives Performing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in neonatal intensive care is
challenging in many ways. While restrictive inclusion criteria or busy study protocols are …

In comparison to the extensive focus of research on the maternal experiences of premature
birth, empirical evidence exploring the experience of premature fatherhood is limited. Unless …

Objective: One of the basic issues in clinical studies is to receive the informed consent; that
is to say, all the activities applied in patient's involvement in the information, decision …

Objective: Randomized trials are essential for improving outcomes, but researchers can be
hesitant about undertaking clinical trials in newborn babies because of perceived …

Aim: To determine parental and clinician views of the informed consent process in neonatal
research. Methods: A questionnaire-based study on the informed consent process. Two …

The enrollment of sick children and their families in genomics studies calls for a
comprehensive view of the consent process. Few studies have searched for correlations …