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Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey

BACKGROUND: Hundreds 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 en...

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Autores principales: Brealey, Stephen, Andronis, Lazaros, Dennis, Laura, Atwell, Christine, Bryan, Stirling, Coulton, Simon, Cox, Helen, Cross, Ben, Fylan, Fiona, Garratt, Andrew, Gilbert, Fiona, Gillan, Maureen, Hendry, Maggie, Hood, Kerenza, Houston, Helen, King, David, Morton, Veronica, Robling, Michael, Russell, Ian, Wilkinson, Clare
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21122094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-116
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author Brealey, Stephen
Andronis, Lazaros
Dennis, Laura
Atwell, Christine
Bryan, Stirling
Coulton, Simon
Cox, Helen
Cross, Ben
Fylan, Fiona
Garratt, Andrew
Gilbert, Fiona
Gillan, Maureen
Hendry, Maggie
Hood, Kerenza
Houston, Helen
King, David
Morton, Veronica
Robling, Michael
Russell, Ian
Wilkinson, Clare
author_facet Brealey, Stephen
Andronis, Lazaros
Dennis, Laura
Atwell, Christine
Bryan, Stirling
Coulton, Simon
Cox, Helen
Cross, Ben
Fylan, Fiona
Garratt, Andrew
Gilbert, Fiona
Gillan, Maureen
Hendry, Maggie
Hood, Kerenza
Houston, Helen
King, David
Morton, Veronica
Robling, Michael
Russell, Ian
Wilkinson, Clare
author_sort Brealey, Stephen
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Hundreds 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. METHODS: 553 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. RESULTS: Of 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). CONCLUSIONS: Trial 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 REGISTRATION: The trial is registered with http://www.isrctn.org/ and ID is ISRCTN76616358.
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spelling pubmed-30023492010-12-16 Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey Brealey, Stephen Andronis, Lazaros Dennis, Laura Atwell, Christine Bryan, Stirling Coulton, Simon Cox, Helen Cross, Ben Fylan, Fiona Garratt, Andrew Gilbert, Fiona Gillan, Maureen Hendry, Maggie Hood, Kerenza Houston, Helen King, David Morton, Veronica Robling, Michael Russell, Ian Wilkinson, Clare Trials Research BACKGROUND: Hundreds 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. METHODS: 553 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. RESULTS: Of 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). CONCLUSIONS: Trial 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 REGISTRATION: The trial is registered with http://www.isrctn.org/ and ID is ISRCTN76616358. BioMed Central 2010-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3002349/ /pubmed/21122094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-116 Text en Copyright ©2010 Brealey et al; 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.
spellingShingle Research
Brealey, Stephen
Andronis, Lazaros
Dennis, Laura
Atwell, Christine
Bryan, Stirling
Coulton, Simon
Cox, Helen
Cross, Ben
Fylan, Fiona
Garratt, Andrew
Gilbert, Fiona
Gillan, Maureen
Hendry, Maggie
Hood, Kerenza
Houston, Helen
King, David
Morton, Veronica
Robling, Michael
Russell, Ian
Wilkinson, Clare
Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title_full Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title_fullStr Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title_full_unstemmed Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title_short Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
title_sort participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21122094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-116
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