Clinical Trials

• Overview
• 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 about clinical trials
  • Difficulties finding a trial to join
• Deciding whether to take part – risk and benefits
  • Reasons for wanting to take part in a clinical trial - personal benefit
  • Reasons for wanting to take part in a clinical trial - helping medical science
  • Deciding not to take part in a clinical trial
  • 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 about clinical trials
  • 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
• People's Profiles
  • Cancer drugs and radiotherapy - randomised trials
  • Long term conditions
  • Trials involving surgery
  • Mental health trials
  • Not taking part in a trial
  • Cancer - Non-randomised studies
  • Screening, prevention other medical interventions
  • Organising trials
• Resources and Information
• Credits