Factors associated with patient willingness to participate in anaesthesia clinical trials: a vignette-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical trials are essential to improve knowledge of anesthesia and perioperative medicine. Unfortunately, many studies face participant-recruitment issues and fail to include the planned number of participants. There is limited published data about how information delivered about the study or how the experiences and attitudes of prospective participants influence willingness to participate. The purpose of this study was to identify such factors in the domain of anesthesia care.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional study at the Geneva University Hospitals (Switzerland) using a newly developed paper-based questionnaire on a sample of outpatients with a recent hospital stay and that were aged over 18 years, confident speaking French and free of any disease that c

SUBMITTER: Noirmain C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7082904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature