Abstract
The study described the incidence of reporting consent rates (CRs) in nursing research articles, ascertained the mean CR for nursing research articles, ascertained differences between those studies that reported a CR and those that did not report a CR, and compared studies that used clinical populations to studies that used nonclinical populations. Research articles (371) from three nursing research journals were examined. Results showed that: (a) 40.7 percent of articles reported a CR, (b) the mean CR was 71.8 percent, (c) 41.1 percent reported inadequate CRs, (d) studies reporting a CR differed from those that did not on five of nine variables, and (e) studies employing clinical populations reported higher consent rates than did studies that employed nonclinical populations.
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