Community Meetings for Emergency Research Community Consultation
Abstract
Objective: To survey attendees at community meetings for an emergency research protocol and determine whether these meetings aid participants understanding and decision to support the proposed emergency research. Design: Postmeeting questionnaire. Setting: Three community meetings for the PolyHeme study in San Antonio area. Subjects: One hundred fifty community meeting attendees. Interventions: PolyHeme research team representatives made a study presentation concerning exception to informed consent regulations. In addition, institutional review board (IRB) members attended these meetings and made a separate presentation about the IRB approval of research and the exception to informed consent in emergency research. The IRB members requested attendees to voluntarily complete an additional Community Consultation Survey assessing demographics, community meeting satisfaction, and impact of the community meeting on their attitudes toward emergency research studies. the respondents objected to research without prior consent, but 82% gave approval for the study in the local community; 137 attendees completed the additional Community Consultation Survey. The average score on the adequacy of information provided about the PolyHeme study was 0.58 on a 5-point Likert scale (-2 to +2). Adequacy of IRB background information on human subjects research received an average score of 0.56, and the overall clarity of the information on community consultation was 0.91. Although 80% of respondents felt there was a potential benefit from PolyHeme, <67% would either want to participate or enroll their family members with or without prior consent. Conclusions: The majority of community meeting attendees understand basic concepts and regulations of emergency research without prior consent.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA618719
Entities
People
- Jenice N. Longfield
- John Frederick Kragh
- Kimberly A. Moran
- Michael J. Morris
- Rick Wolf
- Toney W. Baskin
Organizations
- United States Army Institute of Surgical Research