Keep Clinical Trial Participants in the Loop

This article on Outsourcing-pharma.com explains how not informing clinical trials participants of the study results may leave them confused and frustrated, and lacking information that might be important for their health. Currently, clinical researchers are not required to tell participants the results of the study, but they are required to tell them information that might affect their willingness to participate in the study.

When a group of people were informed of the research results via a site call, roughly 90 per cent of participants reported “high or complete satisfaction”, and when they informed of the results through the sponsor’s press release only 50 percent reported “high or complete satisfaction.”