Development of a Research Participants’ Perception Survey to Improve Clinical Research

A Survey of Barriers to Health Research Promotion

Background and Objectives: High performance research activity in the health domain is crucial to overcoming ever-growing health-related problems. Despite availability of data sources, only a limited number of researchers use these data to derive health-related information. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring the barriers to research promotion as perceived by the university health researc...

Communicating clinical trial results to research participants.

BACKGROUND Communicating clinical trial results to research participants is seldom accomplished in a timely or an effective manner. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a plan to communicate results in an industry-sponsored randomized controlled trial for Huntington disease. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Postal survey to research participants at 28 of 41 research sites (including ...

A Booklet on Participants’ Rights to Improve Consent for Clinical Research: A Randomized Trial

OBJECTIVE Information on the rights of subjects in clinical trials has become increasingly complex and difficult to understand. This study evaluates whether a simple booklet which is relevant to all research studies improves the understanding of rights needed for subjects to provide informed consent. METHODS 21 currently used informed consent forms (ICF) from international clinical trials wer...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

a genre analytic study of research papers written by bilingual writers and their beliefs: a case of persian-english writers

تحقیق حاضر گزارشی است از تحلیل بخش مقدمه دو دسته از مقالات که عبارتند از: 11 مقاله از دو نویسنده دوزبانه فارسی زبان, که شامل مقدمه 4 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و چاپ شده در مجلات بین المللی, مقدمه 3 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و 4 مقاله به زبان فارسی چاپ شده در مجلات داخلی می شود؛ و 12 مقاله از محققان خارجی که در مجله applied linguistics به چاپ رسیده است. مبنای تئوری این تحلیل ها نظریه سوئلز (1990) یا هما...