Concept of Informed Consent in The Context of Research With Children and Child Rights

Abstract

Children are beginning to be perceived as competent social actors, as a result of the United Nations 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, children’s decision making capacity, and the concept of informed consent in research involving children has rarely been interrogated since the United Nations 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child was signed. This article, therefore, discusses the concept of informed consent according to its elements and focuses on how to conduct ethical, lawful and scientific research with children.

Keywords

• informed consent, research with children, child rights, medical and social science research.