obsolete assent process true A planned process of acknowledgement, or agreement, to participate in a procedure or study, where the participant is incapable of informed consent. According to the Common Rule, the IRB shall determine that adequate provisions are made for soliciting the assent of the children, when in the judgment of the IRB the children are capable of providing assent. Asiyah Yu Lin, Yongqun He, Frank Manion, Chris Stoeckert, Jihad Obeid, Jonathan Bona, Mathias Brochhausen, 2018 Informed Consent Workshop Specifically, "assent" is a term used to express willingness to participate in research by persons who are by definition too young to give informed consent but who are old enough to understand the proposed research in general, its expected risks and possible benefits, and the activities expected of them as subjects. assent process http://www.medtran.ru/eng/trials/protomechanics/ch3.htm https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trials/patient-safety/childrens-assent https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/45-cfr-46/index.html#46.408 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777303/ Obsolete Class