Research With Cognitively Impaired Participants

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...

Generalizability in Research with Cognitively Impaired Individuals

Introduction A major challenge in designing technology for users with cognitive impairments is achieving generalizable results. By design, controlled experiments—the gold standard of evaluation in HCI research—remove individual differences through statistical means. While this is appropriate in many situations, when working with special populations, individual differences are often very pronoun...

Empirical research on informed consent with the cognitively impaired.

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 ...

Patient safety concerns for cognitively impaired patients with brain tumors.

Patients with malignant gliomas often have safety concerns not common in patients with other types of cancer. Neurologic and cognitive deficits make the care of such patients more complex, with much of the burden of care falling to the primary caretaker and family.