Parental Decision-Making

Background of Ethical Issues Discussion about parent decision making for minors is not a new concept in the moral world. Historically, the "majority" was awarded to the United States Constitution Amendment No. 26 in 1971, a 18 year old male and female voting, agreeing on contractual obligations and agreeing to receive parental knowledge or recognition We made it possible. Even with such regulations, there are still many discussions about when adolescents are mature enough to make effective decisions about their health.

While many parent decisions are different from the health care team's decision, parents' decisions are accepted unless many people understand that the decision is clearly not the best interests of children and adolescence You should. Nevertheless, as long as there is a big difference between the medical facts, prognosis, the risks and benefits of ongoing treatment, and if the child may be hurt, the authority of the parent should be examined severely. Still, if there is a disagreement, the doctor needs to provide a second opinion from his center or another center. Introduction is not provided and practitioners can not withdraw from patient care.

Parent decisions and underage children In some cases, especially if the decision has a serious effect on underage children's treatment and may lead to death, parents will not take care of underage children You may not be permitted to agree. An example is parents who refuse to represent underage children due to social or religious views, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian scientists. The decision criteria normally applied to underage patients in this situation is called the best criterion. Because underage patients did not have the ability to make decisions, alternative criteria may not apply. Therefore, it is not possible to judge alternative judgment based on the choice based on minor information.

Theme 2 focuses on decisions by parents. Various factors influence the parent's choice to partially or completely reject immunization. These include the child's body and immune system lifestyle and parental perceptions, side effects of illness recognition and vaccination, the effectiveness of the perceived vaccine, the potential benefit of the disease, the negative of vaccination Experience, related to the social environment. Participant lifestyle seems to be an important determinant of vaccination refusal. Participants said that their healthy lifestyle promotes their children's health and therefore reduces the risk of infection. Some participants focus only on nutritional problems. "We depend on" prevention "of eating habits and lifestyle habits. Especially when the nutrition is good, it is not sick "(NV)