Addressing the challenges to conducting trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent – Key findings and recommendations from CONSULT-ENABLE Study

Date: 24 June 2022

The Centre for Trials Research has recently published a paper exploring the barriers and facilitators to conducting trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent (CONSULT-ENABLE Study), which also made a series of recommendations for funders, regulators, RECs, researchers and research delivery teams.

This work has also led to the research team developing the NIHR INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework to help researchers to improve the design of trials that are inclusive of these populations and a website which collates a range of useful resources on capacity and consent.

Reference: Shepherd, V., Hood, K. & Wood, F. Unpacking the ‘black box of horrendousness’: a qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to conducting trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent. Trials 23, 471 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06422-6

If anyone has any questions, please contact ShepherdVL1@cardiff.ac.uk Twitter: @consult_consent

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