1. Knowledge and Attitudes of Research Participants in China Toward Electronic Informed Consent in Clinical Trials: A Cross Sectional Study.
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Hu, Zhanqing, Ouyang, Chenxi, Hahne, Jessica, Khoshnood, Kaveh, Zhang, Jinqiang, Liu, Xiyu, Wu, Ying, and Wang, Xiaomin
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CLINICAL trials ,HUMAN research subjects ,INFORMED consent (Medical law) ,PARTICIPANT observation ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,CROSS-sectional method ,ELECTRONIC voting - Abstract
This study aims to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of participants and potential participants in clinical trials toward electronic informed consent. We conducted a survey-based cross-sectional study in Hunan Province, China in March 2021. A total of 547 respondents were included in this study. All questions in an 8-item survey section assessing participants' knowledge of electronic informed consent received correct answers from at least 70% of participants. In terms of attitude scores, most participants (86.3%) believed that electronic informed consent is more convenient than the paper-based version, and more than half (51.2%) believed that electronic informed consent could completely replace the paper-based version. Responses indicated that common concerns about electronic informed consent were its security and confidentiality, legal benefits, and implications for rights protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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