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Voice Your Opposition To Controlled Crying Study

This petition was published by kate frawley on Sep 09, 2008
Closed on Jan 29, 2009
Result:
This petition is now closed. The petition was passed on to the organisers of the study, urging them to read the comments provided and to reconsider the study.

The response involved a thankyou for the concern, but nothing will be changed as the ethics comittee at Flinders University " was satisfied with the scientific merit and ethical underpinnings of the study, and on this basis, supports the continuation of this project".

Thankyou to all for providing your comments and signatures.

We the undersigned strongly object to the conditions of the study on Infant Sleep Disturbance, which is being conducted by Kate Jackson at Flinders University.

We are concerned that the children involved in the study will be subjected to ‘sleep training’, otherwise known as controlled crying, cry it out or controlled comforting. This aspect of the study is inconsistent with Flinders University Ethics policy, which requires researchers to protect the rights of their experimental subjects.

This petition is now closed.

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