Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informed consent procedures for large population-based cohort studies should be comprehensive and easy-to-use. This is particularly challenging when participants from different socio-economic groups and multicultural ethnic backgrounds are involved. Recently, more and more studies have tried to use multimedia in informed consent procedures. We describe the development and testing of a digital informed consent app and elaborate on whether this may contribute to a comprehensive and practical procedure to obtain informed consent for public health research.

Methods

In a sample of parents with young children, we used a mixed method approach to study the user experience of an informed consent app and evaluate whether it can be used to adequately inform people and regist

SUBMITTER: Haring LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10634039 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature