title: Consent form return rates for third-grade urban elementary students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To maximize active parent consent form return rates for third-grade minority, urban students enrolled in predominantly low-income elementary schools in Chicago, Ill.
  
  
  METHODS
  Research staff used a class incentive and class visits to retrieve consent forms from students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 811 third-grade students, 98% returned a form and 79% (n = 627) of those students' parents provided an affirmative response. Return rates did not vary by students' ethnicity or by the schools' demographic variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Incentives and class visits can yield a high return rate of active parent consent forms for third-grade minority, urban, low-income students.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Health Research and Policy, USA. petji@uic.edu
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Brian R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Flay
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brechling
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cantillon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D032962:Consent Forms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D033282:Parental Consent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010290:Parents; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D014505:Urban Population