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Finding out about a trial :
What are clinical trials and why do we need them?
Different types of clinical trial
Being asked about taking part in a trial
Information and questions
Difficulties finding a trial to join

Deciding whether to take part – risk and benefits :
Reasons for wanting to take part – personal benefit
Reasons for wanting to take part – helping medical science
Deciding not to take part
Thinking about withdrawing from a trial
Why people may not be eligible to join a trial

Being in a trial :
Feelings about being allocated (randomised) to a treatment group
Feelings about being in a placebo-controlled trial
Blinded trials
Non-randomised trial designs and other studies
Side effects and queries
Time commitment, money and other practical issues
Appointments, monitoring, questionnaires
Communication between different health professionals

At the end of a trial :
Feelings when a trial ends
Feedback of trial results

Other issues :
Attitudes to taking part in another trial
Funding and publishing trials
Public awareness and involvement
Under-researched topics/priorities for other research
Messages to other people
Messages to professionals

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Merilyn took part in a randomised trial of different procedures for carrying out a heart bypass operation. She was in the group which had the new procedure.

Medical research >> Clinical Trials >> Trials involving surgery >> Merilyn - Interview 41 >> She has found it hard to deal with how the scar looks. She’d have liked to talk to other women patients about how they felt. The hospital could not of

Merilyn took part in a randomised trial of different procedures for carrying out a heart bypass operation. She was in the group which had the new procedure.

Medical research >> Clinical Trials >> Trials involving surgery >> Merilyn - Interview 41 >> Follow-up after the trial doesn’t include questions about the surgical scar and post-operative pain, or about wider lifestyle issues, which Merilyn fi

Merilyn took part in a randomised trial of different procedures for carrying out a heart bypass operation. She was in the group which had the new procedure.

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