Late adolescents' own and assumed parental preferences towards health-care related confidentiality and consent in Belgium.

Objectives Health care professionals regularly struggle with issues relating to confidentiality and consent for physical and/or mental health issues among adolescents. We investigate late adolescents' own and assumed parental preferences towards health-care related confidentiality and consent. Methods We analyzed online survey data of four vignettes from 463 first-year university students at KU Leuven (Flanders, Belgium). We used paired samples t-tests to assess the (in)consistency between attitudes of late adolescents and their assumed parental attitudes, independent samples t-tests to estima... Mehr ...