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Journal Article
Is the capacity to consent different from the capacity to refuse treatments and procedures in adolescence?
2025
Overview
The objective of this article is to broaden the discussion on the factors that constitute adolescent healthcare decisional capacity, ensuring that adolescents are recognized as capable of refusing treatments or procedures.
Materials from different sources were analyzed, including articles from reputable databases and documents from government agencies, forming a purposefully selected sample. The research was conducted in two phases: document selection and reflective analysis, followed by a report. The discussion was approached from a phenomenological perspective, with reflections grounded in human rights principles.
Healthcare decisional capacity must be sufficiently robust to allow adolescents to refuse treatments or procedures. It is essential to respect the right of capable adolescents to refuse treatments and procedures. Protecting the vulnerability of adolescent patients involves honoring their growing autonomy. Data from field research regarding the refusal of treatments and procedures in adolescence are scarce, which limits the scope of the proposed discussion.
It cannot be argued that adolescents should have different abilities to refuse a treatment or procedure compared to those required to give consent. The importance of these skills seems to vary between these situations. This difference is justified by the need to consider potential harm to health, even though it could be argued that damage to health should be part of the bioethical deliberation surrounding the decision, rather than a factor in the assessment of decisional capacity.
Publisher
Elsevier Editora Ltda,Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria,Elsevier
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