Predicting participant consent in mHealth trials – A caregiver’s perspective

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dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorHeavin, Ciara
dc.contributor.authorGallagher, Joe
dc.contributor.authorO'Donoghue, John
dc.contributor.funderSeventh Framework Programme
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T13:36:30Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T13:36:30Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractInformed consent is sought prior to conducting a healthcare intervention on a person. When a healthcare intervention involves a young child, their caregiver is required to provide informed consent on their behalf. However, little is known on the behavioural intentions of participants to provide consent when a mobile health (mHealth) intervention is involved in a clinical trial scenario. Understanding this phenomenon is important, without consent appropriate data may not be collected to empirically examine the implications of mHealth initiatives when delivering healthcare services to children in a ‘real world context’. The objective of this paper is to explore the behavioural intentions of caregivers to provide consent for children (under five years of age) to participate in mHealth Randomised Control Trials (RCT) in developing countries and subsequently develop a predictive model for consent giving. Data was captured vis-à-vis interviews with Malawian caregivers in Africa. The findings reveal that emotional response stimuli play a major role during the participant informed consent process resulting in the involvement (or not) of a child within an RCT. The study contributes to, and opens up, avenues for critical research on the role of informed consent as part of RCT-related projects, especially concerning the involvement of children. This new knowledge may be leveraged to address participant uncertainties and subsequently improve the rate of paediatric recruitment in mHealth trial scenarios.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Connor, Y., Heavin, C., Gallagher, J., and O'Donoghue, J. (2017) 'Predicting participant consent in mHealth trials – A caregiver’s perspective', Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 21, pp. 1-18. doi: 10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1470en
dc.identifier.doi10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1470
dc.identifier.endpage18
dc.identifier.issn1449-8618
dc.identifier.journaltitleAustralasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)en
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5409
dc.identifier.volume21
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAustralasian Association for Information Systemsen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP1::HEALTH/305292/EU/Supporting Low-cost Intervention For disEase control/SUPPORTING LIFE
dc.relation.urihttp://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/1470
dc.rights© 2017, O’Connor, Heavin, Gallagher & O’Donohue. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and AJIS are credited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/
dc.subjectEmotional response stimulien
dc.subjectRational decision makingen
dc.subjectmHealthen
dc.subjectConsenten
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen
dc.titlePredicting participant consent in mHealth trials – A caregiver’s perspectiveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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