Consent, including advanced consent, of older adults to research in care homes: a qualitative study of stakeholders' views in South Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care home residents, especially those lacking capacity to provide consent for themselves, are frequently excluded from research, thus limiting generalisability of study findings. We set out to explore stakeholders' views about the ethical and practical challenges associated with recruiting care home residents into research studies.

Methods

Qualitative individual interviews with care home residents (n = 14), their relatives (n = 14), and general practitioners (GPs) (n = 10), and focus groups (n = 2) with care home staff. Interviews focused on the issues of older adults consenting to research in care homes, including advanced consent, in general and through reference to a particular study on the use of probiotics to prevent Antibiotic Associated Diarrhoea. Data were

SUBMITTER: Wood F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3750808 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature