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. 2014 Apr 23;14:109. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-109

Table 1.

Inclusion/exclusion criteria for article eligibility

  Included Excluded
Participants
• Children (≤ 18 years) who are facing a health-related decision
• Children not treated as active participants in decision-making
• Decisions about participation in health research
• Decisions not directly pertaining to their health or hypothetical decisions
Interventions
• Interventions to support children’s decision-making needs
• Interventions that support only the information needs of children
Design
• Randomized controlled trials
• Qualitative studies, descriptive studies, cohort studies
• Non-randomized controlled trials
• Editorials, opinion articles
• Interrupted time series
• Controlled before-and-after
Outcomes
• Outcomes that affect the quality of the decision or the decision-making process for children/youth
• Studies that do not report at least one of the outcomes relating to the quality of the decision or the decision-making process
Language
• English or French
• Other languages
Publication status • Published
• Unpublished studies
• Peer-reviewed • Non peer-reviewed