U.S., Oct. 16 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07875712) titled 'Risk Sharing vs Risk Dumping: Parental Attitudes About Risks' on Oct. 08.
Brief Summary: This study will evaluate how parents or legal guardians perceive responsibility for surgical risk after the informed consent discussion for their child's operation, focusing on whether the process feels like "risk sharing" with the clinical team or "risk dumping" onto the parent. In pediatric surgery, parents often serve as surrogate decision-makers, and little is known about how consent conversations shape feelings of support, blame, trust, and decisional burden.
Using a mixed-methods, cross-sectional design, the study will recruit parents/leg...