Would you ever volunteer for a clinical trial? (E.g.: This season's swine flu vaccine)
What sort of trials would you feel comfortable volunteering in, and why?
Where would you draw the line?
To get the ball rolling, I ripped part of the following from http://
The positives and benefits to being a clinical trials volunteer can include:
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* Payment.
* Obtaining expert medical care associated with the trial, without charge.
* Make new friends: new to the UK? Meet other volunteers and strike up new friendships with similar people to yourselves.
* Accommodation: Longer trials will often require overnight stays, which means accommodation without charge.
* Health benefits: If you are a patient volunteer with an ailment, then this is an opportunity to play a more active role in your healthcare and gain access to treatments in research often before they are widely available.
* Help others (and potentially yourself) by contributing to medical research and scientific knowledge.
Negatives and risks to volunteering in clinical trials can include:
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* There may be unpleasant, serious or, in very rare cases indeed, even life-threatening side effects to treatment
* For patient volunteers the clinical treatment may not be effective.
* Like existing treatments, the treatment under study may work for some, but not others.
* You may end up receiving a placebo and be placed in the control or reference group who do not receive the trial medicine until after the clinical trial has finished.
* Certain trials or studies may require more of your time and attention than other types of trials or existing treatments, which could mean many trips to the clinic site, a large number of treatments, and hospital stays or complex dosage requirements.
What sort of trials would you feel comfortable volunteering in, and why?
Where would you draw the line?
To get the ball rolling, I ripped part of the following from http://
The positives and benefits to being a clinical trials volunteer can include:
- - - - -
* Payment.
* Obtaining expert medical care associated with the trial, without charge.
* Make new friends: new to the UK? Meet other volunteers and strike up new friendships with similar people to yourselves.
* Accommodation: Longer trials will often require overnight stays, which means accommodation without charge.
* Health benefits: If you are a patient volunteer with an ailment, then this is an opportunity to play a more active role in your healthcare and gain access to treatments in research often before they are widely available.
* Help others (and potentially yourself) by contributing to medical research and scientific knowledge.
Negatives and risks to volunteering in clinical trials can include:
- - - - -
* There may be unpleasant, serious or, in very rare cases indeed, even life-threatening side effects to treatment
* For patient volunteers the clinical treatment may not be effective.
* Like existing treatments, the treatment under study may work for some, but not others.
* You may end up receiving a placebo and be placed in the control or reference group who do not receive the trial medicine until after the clinical trial has finished.
* Certain trials or studies may require more of your time and attention than other types of trials or existing treatments, which could mean many trips to the clinic site, a large number of treatments, and hospital stays or complex dosage requirements.
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