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Grant Number: 5R01MH058097-02 Project Title: INFORMED CONSENT AND THE THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION
PI Information: Name Title LIDZ, CHARLES W. chuck.lidz@umassmed.edu RESEARCH PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY (SOCIOL Abstract: Research suggests that clinical research subjects often fail to appreciate significant elements of what their informed consent because of the "therapeutic misconception." The therapeutic misconception involves patient/subjects failing to grasp the difference between participating in a clinical research project and receiving ordinary clinical care. We do not know how: 1) prevalent it is, 2) with which personal and situational variables the therapeutic misunderstanding is associated, 3) how seriously this misconception affects other aspects of a decision to participate in research, 4) what its effects are on patients' experience of research participation and 5) how it affects the rate of recruitment to, and dropout from clinical research. This proposal aims to remedy these lacks of knowledge by interviewing in depth 200 subjects from 10 different clinical research projects and then reinterviewing them after they have completed their participation in the project. This will facilitate new approaches to gaining consent and reduce potential sources of public disaffection with clinical research.
Public Health Relevance:
This Public Health Relevance is not available.Thesaurus Terms:
cognition disorder, informed consent, mental health epidemiology, outcomes research
therapy compliance
behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, human subject
Institution: UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER WORCESTER, MA 01655 Fiscal Year: 1999 Department: PSYCHIATRY Project Start: 20-SEP-1998 Project End: 31-MAR-2001 ICD: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH IRG: ZRG2