Alex - Interview 45  

Alex - Interview 45

Age at Interview: 38
Sex: Male
Background: Alex is a University Lecturer. He is married with 1 child aged 6. Ethnic background/nationality: Russian.

Brief outline:Alex fractured his heel in 2007. He agreed to take part in a trial comparing surgery with letting the bones heal naturally. He was randomised to the group having surgery, and his heel is slowly recovering.

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He doesn’t remember being told if he would receive the results. He asked to see a copy, but not everyone would want to.

 



There was something else I was going to ask you about, whether you’d remembered whether they said anything to you about whether you’d get the results of the trial at the end.
 
I [sighs] I don’t remember. I actually asked to be given the results of that, just because, because I was curious, yes? So.
 
Do you think it’s something--
 
So if it’s published, then I would like to have a copy of that for sure, yes.
 
Do you think it’s something that ought to happen anyway, automatically, that results should be given to participants?
 
They should have an option. Maybe not everybody would think about it. I, it was obvious to me, again because I was a scientist, and, you know, and I knew this research would be published, and that’s why I asked. I mean, for somebody who’s not familiar with research maybe there should be a tick-box which asks them if they want a copy of the actual final outcome of it.

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