TY - JOUR
AU1 - Appelbaum, Paul S.
AB - AJOB Primary Research, 1(2): 1–3, 2010 Copyright
 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 2150-7716 print / 2150-7724 online DOI: 10.1080/21507716.2010.499322 Editorial Understanding “Understanding”: An Important Step Toward Improving Informed Consent to Research Paul S. Appelbaum, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute What is known about how well research subjects understand conclusions have for the validity of our current views of the the information communicated to them during the informed problems with informed consent to research? 2) How might consent process is not encouraging. Although there is some they affect the prospects of improving the consent process? diversity in the literature, in general studies suggest that and 3) How can the situation best be rectified? research subjects are unable to recall much—in many cases At the level of the obvious, Sand et al.’s analysis raises most—of the information that has been conveyed to them the possibility that the generally accepted conclusion about by researchers (Verheggen and Wijmen 1996). Subjects typ- current consent practices—namely that we are doing a poor ically fail to grasp the purpose of research studies, the like- job educating research subjects about the essential aspects lihood of benefit, and the range of risks (e.g., Daugherty 
TI - Understanding “Understanding”: An Important Step Toward Improving Informed Consent to Research
JF - AJOB Primary Research
DO - 10.1080/21507716.2010.499322
DA - 2010-06-30
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EP - 3
VL - 1
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