A Role for Children in Health Research.

Abstract

Children are not passive recipients of knowledge but active creators of their own understandings of their world (Hampshire et al., 2012). The competent child has a right to full participation in research as in other areas of their lives, with full value in the present, not just as a future adult citizen (Quennerstedt, 2013). While research studies with child participants demand additional considerations, there is great potential for notable impacts on the lives and well-being of children.