Interventions to Improve Research Participants' Understanding in Informed Consent for Research

Abstract

Although not conclusive, availabledatasuggestthatresearchparticipantsmay frequently not understand dis-closed information. For example, ap-proximately 30% of participants in across-sectionofoncologyclinicaltrialsbelieved that their treatment had al-readybeenproventobethebesttreat-ment for their cancer.