Decision Making — Health Research Participation: Experiences and Decisions of Military Members
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Cook WA, Doorenbos AZ, Bridges EJ Trends in Research with U.S. Military Service Member Participants: A Population-Specific ClinicalTrials.gov Review. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2016 Aug 15;3:122-130. Epub 2016 Apr 30.
Cook WA, Doorenbos AZ Indications of Recruitment Challenges in Research with U.S. Military Service Members: A ClinicalTrials.gov Review. Mil Med. 2017 Mar;182(3):e1580-e1587. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00225.
Cook WA, Melvin KC, Doorenbos AZ US Military Service Members' Reasons for Deciding to Participate in Health Research. Res Nurs Health. 2017 Feb 10. doi: 10.1002/nur.21785. [Epub ahead of print]
Health Research Participation: Experiences and Decisions of Military Members
Interventional studies are often prospective and are specifically tailored to evaluate direct impacts of treatment or preventive measures on disease.
Observational studies are often retrospective and are used to assess potential causation in exposure-outcome relationships and therefore influence preventive methods.
Expanded access is a means by which manufacturers make investigational new drugs available, under certain circumstances, to treat a patient(s) with a serious disease or condition who cannot participate in a controlled clinical trial.
Clinical trials are conducted in a series of steps, called phases - each phase is designed to answer a separate research question.
Phase 1: Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
Phase 2: The drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
Phase 3: The drug or treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
Phase 4: Studies are done after the drug or treatment has been marketed to gather information on the drug's effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use.
