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How does active parental consent influence the findings of drug-use surveys in schools?
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posted on 2004-06-01, 00:00 authored by Vicki WhiteVicki White, D J Hill, Y EffendiThis study examines the impact of passive and active parental consent procedures on the type of adolescents participating in a school-based survey examining substance use. Schools recruited from a random sample of metropolitan schools were assigned to passive or active parental consent condition. Results showed that participation rates in active consent schools were lower than in passive consent schools for junior students (60% vs. 80%) but not senior students. Although consent condition had limited impact on prevalence estimates among older students, among younger students estimates of cannabis use and ecstasy use were higher in the passive consent condition than the active consent condition. Active consent procedures introduce some degree of selection bias into studies of adolescents' substance use and may compromise the external validity of prevalence estimates produced, especially among younger students.
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Evaluation reviewVolume
28Issue
3Pagination
246 - 260Publisher
SageLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0193-841XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2004, Sage PublicationsUsage metrics
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Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchEmpirical ApproachAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorAnalysis of VarianceBias (Epidemiology)FemaleHumansMaleParent-Child RelationsParental ConsentParentsPrevalenceRisk-TakingStudentsSubstance-Related DisordersSurveys and QuestionnairesVictoriaSocial SciencesSocial Sciences, InterdisciplinarySocial Sciences - Other TopicssmokingadolescentsAustraliaactive parental consentAUSTRALIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLCHILDRENALCOHOL-USETOBACCOPOLICYBIASEducation
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