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Post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Research participants may not adequately understand the research in which they agree to enroll. This could be due to a myriad of factors. Such a missing link in the informed consent process contravenes the requirement for an "informed" consent prior to the commencement of resea...

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Autores principales: Taiwo, Olaniyi O, Kass, Nancy
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19646279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-10-11
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Kass, Nancy
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description BACKGROUND: Research participants may not adequately understand the research in which they agree to enroll. This could be due to a myriad of factors. Such a missing link in the informed consent process contravenes the requirement for an "informed" consent prior to the commencement of research. This study assessed the post consent understanding of Nigerian study participants of the oral health research they were invited to join. METHODS: A descriptive cross sectional study with research participants who had just consented to one of three ongoing research studies on oral health. Study sites included two centers, one in the northern and one in the southern part of Nigeria. Data were collected using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. RESULTS: A total of 113 research participants were interviewed. The southern part of the country had 58 respondents with the north having 55. The age range was 21 – 80 years. Mean age was 46.1 (SD16.3). The sample was predominantly male (69.9%) and married (64.6%). There was poor understanding of some key elements of the informed consent process such as involvement in research, benefits, contacts, confidentiality and voluntariness. Some identified factors potentially compromising understanding were poverty, illiteracy, therapeutic misconception and confusion about the dual roles of the Dentist and the researcher. CONCLUSION: The participants recruited into the oral health research in Nigeria did not adequately understand the studies they were invited to join nor do they understand their rights as research participants. Measures should be taken to include research bioethics into the curricula of Dental schools and to train oral health researchers in the country on research ethics.
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spelling pubmed-27275182009-08-15 Post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in Nigeria Taiwo, Olaniyi O Kass, Nancy BMC Med Ethics Research Article BACKGROUND: Research participants may not adequately understand the research in which they agree to enroll. This could be due to a myriad of factors. Such a missing link in the informed consent process contravenes the requirement for an "informed" consent prior to the commencement of research. This study assessed the post consent understanding of Nigerian study participants of the oral health research they were invited to join. METHODS: A descriptive cross sectional study with research participants who had just consented to one of three ongoing research studies on oral health. Study sites included two centers, one in the northern and one in the southern part of Nigeria. Data were collected using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. RESULTS: A total of 113 research participants were interviewed. The southern part of the country had 58 respondents with the north having 55. The age range was 21 – 80 years. Mean age was 46.1 (SD16.3). The sample was predominantly male (69.9%) and married (64.6%). There was poor understanding of some key elements of the informed consent process such as involvement in research, benefits, contacts, confidentiality and voluntariness. Some identified factors potentially compromising understanding were poverty, illiteracy, therapeutic misconception and confusion about the dual roles of the Dentist and the researcher. CONCLUSION: The participants recruited into the oral health research in Nigeria did not adequately understand the studies they were invited to join nor do they understand their rights as research participants. Measures should be taken to include research bioethics into the curricula of Dental schools and to train oral health researchers in the country on research ethics. BioMed Central 2009-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2727518/ /pubmed/19646279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-10-11 Text en Copyright © 2009 Taiwo and Kass; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in Nigeria
title_sort post-consent assessment of dental subjects' understanding of informed consent in oral health research in nigeria
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2727518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19646279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-10-11
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