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Informed consent in clinical research in France: assessment and factors associated with therapeutic misconception.

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BACKGROUND: Informed consent in clinical research is mandated throughout the world. Both patient subjects and investigators are required to understand and accept the distinction between research and treatment. AIM: To document the extent and to identify factors associated with therapeutic misconception in a population of patient subjects or parent proxies recruited from a variety of multicentre trials (parent studies). Patients and METHODS: The study comprised two phases: the development of a questionnaire to assess the quality of informed consent and a survey of patient subjects based on this questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 303 patient subjects or parent proxies were contacted and 279 questionnaires were analysed. The median age was 49.5 years, sex ratio was 1 and 61% of respondents were professionally active. Overall memorisation of the oral or written communication of informed consent was good (69-97%), and satisfaction with the process was around 70%. Therapeutic misconception was present in 70% of respondents, who expected to receive better care and ignored the consequence of randomisation and treatment comparisons. This was positively associated with the acuteness and severity of the disease. CONCLUSION: The authors suggest that the risk of therapeutic misconception be specifically addressed in consent forms as an educational tool for both patients and investigators.

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hal-00850486 , version 1 (06-08-2013)

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I. S. Durand-Zaleski, Corinne Alberti, P. Durieux, X. Duval, S. Gottot, et al.. Informed consent in clinical research in France: assessment and factors associated with therapeutic misconception.. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008, 34 (9), pp.e16. ⟨10.1136/jme.2007.023473⟩. ⟨hal-00850486⟩
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