ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2008
Effects of disclosing financial interests on attitudes toward clinical research.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
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- Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to Potential Research Participants: Good for Nothing?Ethics & human research · 2023Article
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- Conflicts of interest in research: looking out for number one means keeping the primary interest front and center.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2015Article
- The Physician Payments Sunshine Act: data evaluation regarding payments to ophthalmologists.Ophthalmology · 2015Article
- What adolescents enrolled in genomic addiction research want to know about conflicts of interest.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Revisiting financial conflicts of interest in FDA advisory committees.The Milbank quarterly · 2014Article
- Physicians should declare financial incentives for recruiting minority ethnic patients into clinical trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2014Article
- Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest: an evaluation of orthopaedic surgery patients' understanding.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2013Article
- Methods to improve recruitment to randomised controlled trials: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2013Article
- Scientific research and the public trust.Science and engineering ethics · 2011Article
- Key personnel and "long distance" settings: determining who must report financial conflict of interest.Accountability in research · 2010Article
- Disclosure of financial relationships to participants in clinical research.The New England journal of medicine · 2009Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThe effects of disclosing financial interests to potential research participants are not well understood.
objectiveTo examine the effects of financial interest disclosures on potential research participants' attitudes toward clinical research. DESIGN AND
participantsComputerized experiment conducted with 3,623 adults in the United States with either diabetes mellitus or asthma, grouped by lesser and greater severity. Respondents read a description of a hypothetical clinical trial relevant to their diagnosis that included a financial disclosure statement. Respondents received 1 of 5 disclosure statements. MEASUREMENTS: Willingness to participate in the hypothetical clinical trial, relative importance of information about the financial interest, change in trust after reading the disclosure statement, surprise regarding the financial interest, and perceived effect of the financial interest on the quality of the clinical trial.
resultsWillingness to participate in the hypothetical clinical trial did not differ substantially among the types of financial disclosures. Respondents viewed the disclosed information as less important than other factors in deciding to participate. Disclosures were associated with some respondents trusting the researchers less, although trust among some respondents increased. Most respondents were not surprised to learn of financial interests. Researchers owning equity were viewed as more troubling than researchers who were compensated for the costs of research through per capita payments.
conclusionsAside from a researcher holding an equity interest, the disclosure to potential research participants of financial interests in research, as recommended in recent policies, is unlikely to affect willingness to participate in research.
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