Positioning Children's Voice in Clinical Trials Research

Following the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, there has been considerable growth in research with children about health and services that affect them. Creative methods to engage with children have also been developed. One area where progress has been slower is the inclusion of children's perspectives in qualitative research in the context of clinical trials or feasibility studies. Addressing this gap, this article discusses experiences of, and reflections on, the process of researching children's views as part of a clinical feasibility study. The article considers what worked well and highlights remaining dilemmas. A new continuum of children's engagement in research is presented, designed to assist researchers to make explicit the contingent demands on their research, and to suggest a range of techniques from within the broader fields of health, childhood studies, and education research that could be used to forward qualitative research in clinical contexts

Convention on the Rights of the Child · Engineering ethics · Human rights · Medical education · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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