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Audio Assistance Improves Minorities’ Willingness to Participate in Research
Audio-assisted informed consent forms significantly improved the willingness of a sample of primarily African American patients to participate in a mock clinical trial.
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Study Recruitment Incorporated Into Check-In Process
Recruitment through patient portals has become more common, but actual enrollment rates remain low. As part of patients' routine appointment check-ins, researchers included a study information sheet and a HIPAA authorization form. This led to a 37% enrollment rate, which was seven to eight times higher than what researchers expected.
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Researchers Are Boosting Study Recruitment with ‘Cold Contact’ Processes
The Medical University of South Carolina recently switched to a new patient outreach recruitment model. Now, researchers can contact patients unless they opt out. The new process has dramatically increased the number of potential study participants who can be contacted, from 52,000 to more than 1.7 million patients.
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Lack of Trust and Knowledge Hinders Genetic Research Recruitment
Try using lay language to better explain genetic research as part of the informed consent process. Addressing participants’ concerns carefully may help gain participants’ trust in research, and thus improve recruitment of diverse patient populations.
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Highly Publicized Research Fraud Erodes Public Trust
There is not much IRBs can do to spot misconduct or fraud in clinical trials. IRBs do not typically review data. However, IRBs should promote compliance with legal and ethical requirements, and deal with suspected noncompliance in a fair, reasonable, and timely fashion.
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Feds Weigh In on Psychedelic Medicine Clinical Trials
FDA issues draft guidance for researchers studying alternative therapies.
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Researchers Often Exclude Adults Living with Intellectual Disabilities
Historically, adults living with intellectual disabilities have not been considered among potential participants in the recruitment phase of studies, or have been presumed to lack capacity for first-person consent and excluded on that basis. While there is a contemporary trend toward greater inclusion, these barriers to research participation remain important concerns.
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Ethical Concerns if Study Participants Use Electronic Wearables
Study participants should clearly understand who owns the data collected and how they can exercise control over its use. Participants should know privacy will be maintained when researchers share data with third parties or when publishing research findings.
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Research Ethics Consultation Service Is a Growing and Evolving Program
After a decade in existence, the most frequent reason for requesting these services is questions about study design, followed by informed consent.
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Scientific Journals Confront Ethical Controversy Over ChatGPT
The new artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT is roiling the scientific community. There are a range of ethical concerns in relation to the use of AI for journals. There is risk of bias, inaccuracy, and authorship issues.