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Decision Aids in Randomised Trials: The DART Study

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Summary

This project is funded by the CSO as a postdoctoral fellowship award.   The project will use a formal mixed methods approach to explore clinicians' and patients' perspectives about the acceptability and usefulness of trial participation decision aids.  

The project will focus on the acceptability and usefulness of a trial participation decision aid from both a clinician and patient perspective.   The specific objectives are to:

• identify how decision aids are currently used to inform trial participation;
• investigate what patients and clinicians understand about RCT participation;
• define what patients and clinicians perceive as being important information to include in a decision aid to inform trial participation;
• develop a decision aid to inform participation of patients in a RCT;
• assess patients and clinicians views about the acceptability of a trial participation decision aid;
• develop guidance on how to utilise decision aids to inform RCT participation.

Contact

Katie Schumm;  k.schumm@abdn.ac.uk                

Status

Funding commenced on 1^st November 2009 for a period of 3 years.