ReviewBMC medical ethics2015
Volunteer experiences and perceptions of the informed consent process: Lessons from two HIV clinical trials in Uganda.
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- Pooled it
- "You would not be in a hurry to go back home": patients' willingness to participate in HIV/AIDS clinical trials at a clinical and research facility in Kampala, Uganda.BMC medical ethics · 2020Trial
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- The experience of trial participation disclosure among sex workers in a phase IIb HIV vaccine trial: A qualitative study in urban Tanzania.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- 'Some parts of the consent form are written using complex scientific language': community perspectives on informed consent for research with pregnant and lactating mothers in Uganda.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Exploring the consent process among pregnant and breastfeeding women taking part in a maternal vaccine clinical trial in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Understanding of Critical Elements of Informed Consent in Genomic Research: A Case of a Paediatric HIV-TB Research Project in Uganda.Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · 2022Article
- Experiences and practices of key research team members in obtaining informed consent for pharmacogenetic research among people living with HIV: a qualitative study.Research ethics · 2022Article
- Participant recall and understandings of information on biobanking and future genomic research: experiences from a multi-disease community-based health screening and biobank platform in rural South Africa.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
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- Reasons for participating in a randomised clinical trial: The volunteers' voices in the COSTOP trial in Uganda.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2017Article
- Volunteer experiences and perceptions of the informed consent process: Lessons from two HIV clinical trials in Uganda.BMC medical ethics · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundInformed consent as stipulated in regulatory human research guidelines requires that a volunteer is well-informed about what will happen to them in a trial. However researchers are faced with a challenge of how to ensure that a volunteer agreeing to take part in a clinical trial is truly informed. We conducted a qualitative study among volunteers taking part in two HIV clinical trials in Uganda to find out how they defined informed consent and their perceptions of the trial procedures, study information and interactions with the research team.
methodsBetween January and December 2012, 23 volunteers who had been in the two trials for over 6 months, consented to be interviewed about their experience in the trial three times over a period of nine months. They also took part in focus group discussions. Themes informed by study research questions and emerging findings were used for content analysis.
resultsVolunteers defined the informed consent process in terms of their individual welfare. Only two of the volunteers reported having referred during the trial to the participant information sheets given at the start of the trial. Volunteers remembered the information they had been given at the start of the trial on procedures that involved drawing blood and urine samples but not information about study design and randomisation. Volunteers said that they had understood the purpose of the trial. They said that signing a consent form showed that they had consented to take part in the trial but they also described it as being done to protect the researcher in case a volunteer later experienced side effects.
conclusionVolunteers pay more attention during the consent process to procedures requiring biological tests than to study design issues. Trust built between volunteers and the research team could enhance the successful conduct of clinical trials by allowing for informal discussions to identify and review volunteers' perceptions. These results point to the need for researchers to view informed consent as a process rather than an event.
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