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Encouraging greater empowerment for adolescents in consent procedures in social...
Samdal, Oddrun; Budin‐Ljøsne, Isabelle; Haug, Ellen; Helland, Trond; Kjostarova‐Unkovska, Lina; Bouillon, Claire; Bröer, Christian; Corell, MariaThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes the importance of allowing children and adolescents to influence decisions that are important to them following their age and maturity. This paper explores the principles, practices, and implications around using parental versus child/adolescent consent when participating in social science research and policy development. Experiences from two s...
Semantics bias in cross-national comparative analyses : Is it good or bad to ha...
Schnohr, Christina W.; Gobina, Inese; Santos, Teresa Cristina; Mazur, Joanna; Alikasifuglu, Mujgan; Välimaa, Raili; Corell, Maria; Hagquist, CurtThe Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social and health indicators on adolescents in 43 countries. The study provides comparable data on health behaviors and health outcomes through the use of a common protocol, which have been a back bone of the study sine its initiation in 1983. Recent years, researchers within the study have noticed a questionable comparabil...