Resources

Publications and presentations from the CONNECT study.

Videos

Staff training film

Animation for children and young people

This animation is for children and young people who have taken part in research when they were very poorly. It helps to explain the reasons why consent could not be sought before they took part in the research. This is research without prior consent (also known as deferred consent). Doctors, nurses and parents may ask children and young people to watch this animation as a way of informing and involving them in decisions about research. Children, researchers, nurses and doctors helped to make this animation with the company Morph. They based the animation on the findings of The Children’s Voices project, which explored the views of 16 children aged 7-15 about research without prior consent.

Publications

Woolfall, K., Frith, L., Dawson, A., Gamble, C., Lyttle, MD., Young, B., 15 minute consultation: an evidence-based approach to research without prior consent (deferred consent) in neonatal and paediatric critical care trials. BMJ Open, Read

Woolfall, K., Frith, L., Gamble, C., Gilbert, R., Mok, Q., Young, B., (2015) How parents and practitioners experience research without prior consent (deferred consent) for emergency research involving children with life threatening conditions: a mixed method study. BMJ Open, Read

Woolfall, K., Young, B., Frith, L., Appleton, R., Iyer., A., Messahel, S., Hickey, H & Gamble, B (2014) Doing challenging research studies in a patient centred way: qualitative study to inform a randomised controlled trial in the paediatric emergency care setting. BMJ Open, 15;4(5):e005045. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005045. Read

Frith, L., Young, B., Woolfall, K (2014) Patient and public participation in health care: can we do it better? American Journal of Bioethics, 14 (6): 17-33

Woolfall, K., Frith, L., Gamble, C & Young, B (2013) Practitioner views and experiences of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials: the connect study. Trials 2013 14(Suppl 1):P104 (Read)

Woolfall, K., Frith, L., Gamble, C & Young, B (2013) How experience makes a difference: practitioners’ views on the use of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials. BMC Medical Ethics 14(45). doi:10.1186/1472-6939-14-45 (Read)

Gamble, C., Woolfall, K., Williamson, P., Appleton, R & Young B (2013) New European Union regulation of clinical trials is conflicting on deferred consent in emergency situations. BMJ;346

Presentations

Woolfall K (2015) Evidence-based guidance to inform consent seeking in children’s critical care trials, RCPCH Annual Conference, Birmingham, 30th April (plenary abstract presentation)

Woolfall K (2015) Approaches to consent in paediatric and neonatal intensive care trials: CONNECT study guidance. ‘Improving trials by improving trials for patients’, North West hub for Trials Methodology Research showcase event, Liverpool, 15th April 2015. View presentation

Woolfall, K (2014) Does deferring consent assist informed decisions about research in the emergency care setting? Women's and Children's Health Clinical Trials Group, University of Liverpool, 13th October 2014. (Invited Speaker)

Woolfall, K (2014) Deferred consent in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. Annual Scientific Conference of Clinical Excellence in Emergency Medicine, Exeter University, 9th-11th September 2014 (Invited speaker)

Woolfall, K (2014) Doing challenging research studies in a patient centred way: CONNECT study findings. Evelina Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Research Showcase, London, 16th June 2014. (Invited Speaker)

Woolfall, K (2014) The acceptability of deferred consent in a paediatric emergency care trial: Lessons from CATCH. CLARHC UCL Partners workshop on consent, London, UCL, 29th April 2014 (invited speaker)

Woolfall, K (2013) Practitioners’ preconceptions and experiences of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials: The CONNECT Study. MRC 2nd Clinical Trials Methodology Conference: Methodology Matters, Edinburgh, 18th - 19th November 2013 (poster presentation).

Woolfall, K (2013) Approaches to consent in paediatric emergency care trials: CONNECT study findings. Medicines for Children’s Research Network and North West hub for Trials Methodology Research Meeting, 2nd December 2013 (Invited Speaker)

Woolfall, K (2012) Consent Methods in paediatric emergency care trials: The CONNECT Study. Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network, The University of Birmingham, 9th November 2012 (Invited speaker)