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ArticleAMA journal of ethics2017

"Teach-to-Goal" to Better Assess Informed Consent Comprehension among Incarcerated Clinical Research Participants.

Cyrus Ahalt, Rebecca Sudore, Marielle Bolano, Lia Metzger, Anna M Darby, Brie Williams

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Article in AMA journal of ethics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Cyrus AhaltA researcher and policy analyst in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Rebecca SudoreA professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she serves as a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, and clinician investigator.
Marielle BolanoA fourth-year medical student at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, and worked at the University of California, San Francisco Division of Geriatrics as a research assistant.
Lia MetzgerAn assistant clinical research coordinator for the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Anna M DarbyA second-year emergency medicine resident at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center, where she works in the dedicated Jail Emergency Department that serves Los Angeles County, and worked as a litigation assistant at the Prison Law Office advocating for prisoners' health care needs and as a National Institute on Aging Medical Student Training in Aging Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Brie WilliamsA professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Funding

VARC CoreP30AG044281 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Alexander Keliimoeanu Smith · 2013 to 2026
$19.9M
Mentoring Researchers in Advance Care Planning for Underrepresented Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and Their CaregiversK24AG054415 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI REBECCA L SUDORE · 2017 to 2026
$1.7M
NIA NIH HHS K24 AG054415NIA NIH HHS P30 AG044281
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Correctional health research requires important safeguards to ensure that research participation is ethically conducted. In addition to having disproportionately low educational attainment and low literacy, incarcerated people suffer from health-related conditions that can affect cognition (e.g., traumatic brain injury, substance use disorders, mental illness). Yet modified informed consent processes that assess participants' comprehension of the risks and benefits of participation are not required by relevant federal guidelines. A push to assess comprehension of informed consent documents is particularly timely given an increase in demand for correctional health research in the context of criminal justice reform. We argue that comprehension assessments can identify persons who should be excluded from research and help those who will ultimately participate in studies better understand the risks and benefits of their participation.

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ComprehensionInformed ConsentPrisonersBiomedical ResearchClinical Trials as TopicConsent FormsGoalsHuman ExperimentationHumans

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PMID28905727
PMCPMC5762181

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