Participants in research

sharing research findings with research participants and communities

in occupational and environmental health research, individual, group and community research participants have a unique and vested interest in the research findings. the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence are helpful in considering the ethical issues in the disclosure of research findings in occupational and environmental health research. researchers need to include ...

Research With Cognitively Impaired Participants.

Illnesses that cause cognitive impairment are a considerable health problem in the United States. These include Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea, cerebrovascular disease, psychiatric disorders, chronic alcoholism, and AIDS dementia complex. Illness associated with cognitive impairment may cause great suffering to the affected patients and their families. Research involving individuals w...

Paying research subjects: participants' perspectives.

OBJECTIVE To explore the opinions of unpaid healthy volunteers on the payment of research subjects. DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Southern Alberta, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Medically eligible persons responding to recruiting advertisements for a randomised vaccine trial were invited to take part in a study of informed consent at the point at which they formally consented or refused trial...

Challenges in recruitment of research participants

Recruitment is the dialogue which takes place between an investigator and a potential participant prior to the initiation of the consent process. It begins with the identification, targeting and enlistment of participants (volunteer patients or controls) for a research study. It involves providing information to the potential participants and generating their interest in the proposed study. The...

Patient involvement in research – participants or collaborators?