Kate - Interview 13  

Kate - Interview 13

Age at Interview: 38
Sex: Female
Background: Kate is Operations Director for a charity. She is married with no children. Ethnic background/nationality: White New Zealander.

Brief outline:Kate and her husband took part in a trial comparing injections of grass pollen antigen against a placebo as a way to reduce hay fever. Kate was in the experimental group and her husband in the placebo group.

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Kate liked the fact that the research nurse tailored the information he gave to each individual participant during the trial.

 



The thing I particularly liked about the hay fever trial is that the, the research nurse that was running the study, he kind of tailored how much information depending on how interested you were. So my husband wasn’t as interested in, in the whole trial design and all the rest of it. So he got as much information as he needed. Whereas I was quite interested in how it was all designed and how it was all fed back, and decision-making and ethics and all that sort of thing. And so he was quite prepared to go into the detail with me. And I think, you know, if people are interested you should be flexible and give them the time. Helps maintain motivation.

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