OBJECTIVE To investigate how patients included in trials on treatment in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction experience the consent procedure. DESIGN A combined qualitative and quantitative interview concerning the patients' knowledge of the trial, their feelings about being asked to participate, and their attitudes towards the consent procedure. SETTING Tertiary referral centre....

Providing an informed consent has an important role in promotion of medical treatments and reduction of judiciary litigations in this process. Today with cultural changes and wide propagation that is usually charming, the request for aesthetic surgery has an increasing trend. These problems with complexity of cosmetic surgeries lead to deeper differences of information between plastic surgeons ...

BACKGROUND In studies publishing identifying personal information, obtaining consent is regarded as necessary, as it is impossible to ensure complete anonymity. However, current journal practices around specific points to consider when obtaining consent, the contents of consent forms and how consent forms are managed have not yet been fully examined. This study was conducted to identify potenti...

INTRODUCTION Informed, voluntary, and valid consent from biomaterial donors is a precondition for biobank research. Valid consent protects donors' rights and helps maintain public trust in biobank research. Harmonization of consent procedures in biobank research is needed, because of the widely shared vision on national and international networking of biobanks including data and sample sharing....

Results Approximatelyhalf the patients reported thattheyhadreceived sufficient information about ECTand sideeffects.Approximately a third didnot feel theyhad freelyconsented to ECTeven whentheyhad signed a consent form. Clinician-ledresearch evaluates these findings tomeanthat patients trusttheir doctors, whereas user-ledworkevaluates similar findings as showing inadequacies in informed consent.

OBJECTIVE To examine patients' understanding of the status, function, and remit of written consent to surgery. DESIGN Prospective questionnaire study. Questionnaires were sent to patients within one month of surgery. Responses were analysed with frequencies and single variable analyses. SETTING Large teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 732 patients who had undergone surgery in obstetrics and ...

Abstract The Internal Consent Scale (ICS) was created to measure feelings associated with a person’s willingness engage in partnered sexual activity. Although previous studies using the ICS have assessed gender differences, evidence has not been provided suggest that functions similarly for women and men. Using data from an online cross-sectional survey of adults ( N = 874; 53.1% women), we sub...