Blom-Hoffman Jessica, Leff Stephen S, Franko Debra L, Weinstein Elana, Beakley Kelly, Power Thomas J
Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University, 203 Lake Hall, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
School Ment Health. 2009 Mar 1;1(1):3-15. doi: 10.1007/s12310-008-9000-7.
Evaluations of school-based interventions and prevention programs typically require parental consent for students to participate. In school-based efforts, program evaluators may have limited access to parents and considerable effort is required to obtain signed consent. This issue is particularly salient when conducting research in under-resourced, urban schools, where parent involvement in the school setting may be somewhat limited. The aims of this article were to (a) examine the published school-based prevention and intervention literature to assess the state of the field in terms of consent procedures and participation rates; and (b) describe two examples of health promotion studies that used multi-component, partnership-based strategies in urban schools to encourage communication among children, their parents, and researchers. The purpose of the case studies was to generate hypotheses to advance the science related to school-based participant recruitment for research studies. Of nearly 500 studies reviewed, only 11.5% reported both consent procedures and participation rates. Studies using active consent procedures had a mean participation rate of 65.5% (range: 11-100%). This article highlights the need for researchers to report consent procedures and participation rates and describes partnership-based strategies used to enroll students into two urban, school-based health promotion studies.
对校本干预措施和预防项目的评估通常需要家长同意学生参与。在校本工作中，项目评估人员接触家长的机会可能有限，且需要付出相当大的努力才能获得家长签署的同意书。在资源匮乏的城市学校开展研究时，这个问题尤为突出，因为在这类学校中，家长在学校事务中的参与度可能较为有限。本文的目的是：（a）查阅已发表的校本预防与干预文献，从同意程序和参与率方面评估该领域的现状；（b）描述两项健康促进研究的实例，这两项研究在城市学校采用了多成分、基于伙伴关系的策略，以促进儿童、其家长和研究人员之间的沟通。案例研究的目的是提出假设，以推动与校本研究参与者招募相关的科学发展。在查阅的近500项研究中，只有11.5%的研究报告了同意程序和参与率。采用主动同意程序的研究，平均参与率为65.5%（范围：11%-100%）。本文强调了研究人员报告同意程序和参与率的必要性，并描述了用于让学生参与两项城市校本健康促进研究的基于伙伴关系的策略。
