One-time Informed Consent for Research in Prison

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Ethical research on detained persons remains limited, including research on informed consent. This study aimed to fill in this research gap and compared audio-visual and paper-based materials for a one-time general informed consent for research in prison, using a randomized design. The primary outcome was whether participants sign the inform consent. Secondary outcomes included understanding, evaluation, and time to read/watch the informed consent.

Clinical Trial Description

Detained persons constitute a very vulnerable and perhaps reluctant to share their medical data. In particular, it is crucial to ensure that these persons, deprived of their liberty, understand that their consent is voluntary and that a refusal will not have any consequence on their treatment or care. In other words, it is necessary to ensure that consent is informed. In a historical context of non-ethical research using detained persons, this is a crucial issue. However, while detained persons are now protected from various forms of abuse, this may have had the consequence of reducing research involving them, to the detriment of understanding their characteristics and vulnerabilities. A general consent for research will encourage research on prison populations by facilitating access to their medical data in order to study and reduce health disparities, for this population with multiple somatic and psychiatric comorbidities. Our main questions are: Q1. What is the acceptability rate of general consent for research in detained persons? Q2. What are the characteristics (socio-demographic and medical) of detained person who refuse to give their consent? Q3. Which material (paper-based or video) is more effective? To answer these research question, we will use an exploratory randomized cross-sectional trial, conducted in an adult pre-trial prison and a juvenile detention center. Participants will be randomly assigned to read or watch information about informed consent, stratified on the prison. In both prisons, the study will take place in the prison medical unit. This project is aimed to improve general consent, which contributes to reducing inequalities in documentation on health status, and ultimately, health inequalities. ;

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Informed Consent

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT05505058
Study type	Interventional
Source	University Hospital, Geneva
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	September 1, 2019
Completion date	June 30, 2022

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