Perception of clinical research among patients and healthy volunteers of clinical trials.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinical research relies on data from patients and volunteers, yet the target sample size is often not achieved. Here, we assessed the perception of clinical research among clinical trial participants to improve the recruitment process for future studies.

Methods

We conducted a single-center descriptive and exploratory study of 300 current or former participants in various phase I-III clinical trials. Questionnaires were either distributed to current clinical trial participants or emailed to former subjects.

Results

Subjects strongly agreed or agreed that contributing to improving medical care (> 81%), contributing to scientific research (> 79%), and trusting their treating physicians (> 77%) were motives for study participation. Among healthy volunteers, fina

SUBMITTER: Bergmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482583 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature