Image of The Impact of Child Obesity on Active Parental Consent in School-Based Survey Research on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Journal Articles

The Impact of Child Obesity on Active Parental Consent in School-Based Survey Research on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Previous studies have shown that active consent procedures result in sampling bias in surveys dealing with
adolescent risk behaviors such as cigarette smoking and illicit drug use. To examine sampling bias from active
consent procedures when the survey topic pertains to childhood obesity and associated health behaviors,
the authors pair data obtained from both active and passive consent procedures. The authors find that parents of children who are overweight or at risk for being overweight are significantly less likely to give active consent. In addition, parents of children enrolled in lower grades are more reluctant to consent to participate.

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information
Series Title
Evaluation Review
Call Number
-
Publisher
California : Sage Publishing.,
Collation
-
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0193-841X
Classification
-
Content Type
-
Media Type
-
Carrier Type
-
Edition
Vol. 32, No. 3, June 2008. Page 298-312
Subject(s)
active consent
sampling bias
child obesity
adolescent risk behaviors
The Impact of Child Obesity on Active Parental
Specific Detail Info
-
Statement of Responsibility
Other version/related

No other version available

File Attachment
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment