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Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Recommendations for the return of research results to study participants and guardians: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2012Guideline
- Testing approaches to sharing trial results with participants: The Show RESPECT cluster randomised, factorial, mixed methods trial.PLoS medicine · 2021Trial
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of Knee Quality of Life 26-Item Questionnaire into Spanish in Patellofemoral Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- Site staff perspectives on communicating trial results to participants: Cost and feasibility results from the Show RESPECT cluster randomised, factorial, mixed-methods trial.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2023Article
- Providing trial results to participants in phase III pragmatic effectiveness RCTs: a scoping review.Trials · 2021Article
- Participant preferences for the provision of registration trials results.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundHundreds of thousands of volunteers take part in medical research, but many will never hear from researchers about what the study revealed. There is a growing demand for the results of randomised trials to be fed back to research participants both for ethical research practice and for ensuring their co-operation in a trial. This study aims to determine participants' preferences for type of leaflet (short versus long) used to summarise the findings of a randomised trial; and to test whether certain characteristics explained participants' preferences.
methods553 participants in a randomised trial about General Practitioners' access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging for patients presenting with suspected internal derangement of the knee were asked in the final follow-up questionnaire whether they would like to be fed back the results of the trial. Participants who agreed to this were included in a postal questionnaire survey asking about their preference, if any, between a short and a long leaflet and what it was about the leaflet that they preferred. Multinomial logistic regression was used to test whether certain demographics of responding participants along with treatment group explained whether a participant had a preference for type of leaflet or no preference.
resultsOf the participants who returned the final follow-up questionnaire, 416 (88%) agreed to receive the results of the trial. Subsequently 132 (32%) participants responded to the survey. Most participants preferred the longer leaflet (55%) and the main reasons for this were the use of technical information (94%) and diagrams (89%). There was weak evidence to suggest that gender might explain whether participants have a preference for type of leaflet or not (P = 0.084).
conclusionsTrial participants want to receive feed back about the results and appear to prefer a longer leaflet. Males and females might require information to be communicated to them differently and should be the focus of further research.
trial registrationThe trial is registered with http://www.isrctn.org/ and ID is ISRCTN76616358.
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