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Record W4406250111 · doi:10.1186/s13643-025-02756-9

Healthcare professionals’ understanding of children’s rights: a systematic review of the empirical evidence-base

2025· review· en· W4406250111 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Shaymaa Majeed Hamzah Al-Shammari, Mark Linden, Helen Kerr, Helen Noble

Bibliographic record

VenueSystematic Reviews · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChildren's Rights and Participation
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersQueen's UniversityQueen's University Belfast
KeywordsMedicineCINAHLPsycINFOHealth careNarrativeNursingMedical educationMEDLINEPsychological intervention

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The concept of children's rights emerged during the 1980s and emphasised the role of children as active participants in matters which concern them. AIM: This review aims to identify and synthesise the empirical evidence base on healthcare professionals' (HCPs) understanding of children's rights. METHODS: Five electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, and the Web of Science) were systematically searched in May 2023. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used to quality appraise full-text papers included in the review. A descriptive narrative synthesis of the studies' findings was performed. RESULTS: A total of 15 relevant studies from 10 countries were identified and included in the review. The number of participants included ranged from 6 to 1048 for HCPs with a broad range of sampling methods. Based on the narrative synthesis of the included studies, three main themes were identified: (1) Barriers to implementing children's rights in healthcare, (2) Factors that contribute to children's rights implementation, and (3) Study instruments used to measure outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: HCPs require a better understanding of children's rights to implement these rights into practice. Listening to children, building trusting relationships with children, and continuing professional development of HCPs could help to address barriers to understanding children's rights. There is a pressing need for the development of a tool that is capable of tracking changes in the understanding of children's rights in healthcare environments as efforts to increase awareness become more widely recognised.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.052
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0110.003
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.432
GPT teacher head0.494
Teacher spread0.062 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations9
Published2025
Admission routes1
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