In this chapter, the authors share their examination of the medical and public health
literature regarding links between health and literacy and identify trends in research and …

A rich academic literature exists about issues of informed consent in medical care, and, to a
lesser extent, about a variety of issues posed by human experimentation. Most …

Test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care
revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on …

The Fifth Edition of Scott A. Miller's classic Developmental Research Methods presents an
overview of methods to prepare students to carry out, report on, and evaluate research on …

Context Considerable discussion surrounds issues related to the capacities of
neuropsychiatric patients to consent to research, yet few empirical investigations have …

Purpose: Studies have documented that the majority of consent documents for medical
diagnosis and treatment are written at a reading level above that of the majority of the US …

Sugarman et al discuss their retrieval of published empirical research on informed consent
as part of an effort to ensure that patients and research subjects within the Veterans Affairs …

A randomized trial comparing the amount of knowledge orally recalled from four different
presentations of the same consent information was conducted in a non-clinic sample of 233 …

This study was conducted to assess the readability and length of informed consent
documents used in clinical trials in oncology. One hundred seven consent documents from …

This review considers ethical challenges to research design and informed consent in
biomedical and behavioral studies conducted in resource-poor settings. A review of the …