Trial experience and problems of parental recollection of consent

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.49

BMJ 2001;322:49 ( 6 January )

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Trial experience and problems of parental recollection of consent

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EDITOR $---$ The Griffiths report refers to papers providing qualitative research evidence about informed consent in the neonatalextracorporeal membrane oxygenation trial.^1-5 As authors (CS,DE, JG) and principal investigator (DF) of this trial, we focuson one aspect of thereport.

The report states that several parents in North Staffordshire had a clear recollection of being asked to allow their childrento have continuous negative extrathoracic pressure but no recollectionof giving consent to randomisation in a research project (9.3.2).Our research with parents of surviving babies from trials of extracorporealmembrane oxygenation suggests that, in this trial at least, manycomplicated factors affected the consent process and subsequentrecall andreactions.

We interviewed parents some time after their baby had been discharged. A small number had no recollection of randomisation.Others gave varied details about the trial and treatment allocation.The consent process could be difficult, and transmission . . . [Full text of this article]

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