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Knowledge, awareness, and attitudes about research ethics committees and informed consent among resident doctors

Background: Medical research involving humans is now common all over the world. Medical doctors and residents are increasingly involved in such research. As part of their training requirements, medical residents in many institutions have to be involved, to different degrees, in human research projec...

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Autores principales: Al Demour, Saddam, Alzoubi, Karem H, Alabsi, Anas, Al Abdallat, Sadam, Alzayed, Ashraf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31114291
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S197511
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author Al Demour, Saddam
Alzoubi, Karem H
Alabsi, Anas
Al Abdallat, Sadam
Alzayed, Ashraf
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Alzoubi, Karem H
Alabsi, Anas
Al Abdallat, Sadam
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description Background: Medical research involving humans is now common all over the world. Medical doctors and residents are increasingly involved in such research. As part of their training requirements, medical residents in many institutions have to be involved, to different degrees, in human research projects. Methods: In this study, knowledge, awareness, and attitudes of resident doctors toward research ethics committees (REC) and informed consent (IC) processes were evaluated. For that purpose, a sample of 209 medical residents of different years from a major teaching hospital was surveyed. Results: Results showed that resident doctors had minimal knowledge of major ethical guidelines such as the Declaration of Helsinki and Belmont Report. However, more than half of respondents in this study had general knowledge of REC. Additionally, the majority of participants believed that there is a need for REC in each research conducting institution, and that training is also needed for REC members. Moreover, 82.7% of participants thought that investigators should have some training in research ethics. Finally, the current study showed that 60.3%–88.7% of participants were aware of IC requirements in clinical research. Conclusion: Although many residents showed good knowledge and positive attitudes regarding certain aspects related to REC and IC, others need improvement.
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spelling pubmed-64899102019-05-21 Knowledge, awareness, and attitudes about research ethics committees and informed consent among resident doctors Al Demour, Saddam Alzoubi, Karem H Alabsi, Anas Al Abdallat, Sadam Alzayed, Ashraf Int J Gen Med Original Research Background: Medical research involving humans is now common all over the world. Medical doctors and residents are increasingly involved in such research. As part of their training requirements, medical residents in many institutions have to be involved, to different degrees, in human research projects. Methods: In this study, knowledge, awareness, and attitudes of resident doctors toward research ethics committees (REC) and informed consent (IC) processes were evaluated. For that purpose, a sample of 209 medical residents of different years from a major teaching hospital was surveyed. Results: Results showed that resident doctors had minimal knowledge of major ethical guidelines such as the Declaration of Helsinki and Belmont Report. However, more than half of respondents in this study had general knowledge of REC. Additionally, the majority of participants believed that there is a need for REC in each research conducting institution, and that training is also needed for REC members. Moreover, 82.7% of participants thought that investigators should have some training in research ethics. Finally, the current study showed that 60.3%–88.7% of participants were aware of IC requirements in clinical research. Conclusion: Although many residents showed good knowledge and positive attitudes regarding certain aspects related to REC and IC, others need improvement. Dove 2019-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6489910/ /pubmed/31114291 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S197511 Text en © 2019 Al Demour et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Alzoubi, Karem H
Alabsi, Anas
Al Abdallat, Sadam
Alzayed, Ashraf
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title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, awareness, and attitudes about research ethics committees and informed consent among resident doctors
title_short Knowledge, awareness, and attitudes about research ethics committees and informed consent among resident doctors
title_sort knowledge, awareness, and attitudes about research ethics committees and informed consent among resident doctors
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31114291
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S197511
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