Informed Consent in Psychiatry Clinical Research

ISBN-13: 9783659246562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str.

Umesh C Gupta

Opis

Obtaining informed consent from mentally challenged patients in psychiatry clinical research has always been a challenge for researchers posing many ethical concerns and procedural hurdles due to participants impaired ability to judge the reality. Researchers, ethicists, and policy makers are struggling towards developing and implementing appropriate strategies and approaches optimizing the informed consent procedure in psychiatry clinical research to find a balance between risk-benefit ratio, research advancement, and autonomy of the study subjects. This book critically reviews the various ethical issues and challenges associated with informed consent, their underlying reasons, and investigate the appropriate strategies and practices needed to be adopted while obtaining informed consent from subjects with impaired consent capacity, participating in psychiatry clinical research.

O autorze

Umesh C. Gupta has a rich experience and sound knowledge of clinical research, research regulations, and new drug development and has been a teaching faculty for various academic courses. In addition to this book, he has authored a book on clinical research and has many publications to his credit in peer reviewed journals.