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. 2007 Nov;33(11):647-50.
doi: 10.1136/jme.2006.017376.

The need for additional safeguards in the informed consent process in schizophrenia research

K K Anderson  1 , S D Mukherjee
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The need for additional safeguards in the informed consent process in schizophrenia research

K K Anderson et al. J Med Ethics. 2007 Nov.

Abstract

The process of obtaining informed consent to participate in a clinical study presents many challenges for research conducted in a population of patients with schizophrenia. Morally valid, informed consent must include information sharing, decisional capacity, and capacity for voluntarism. This paper examines the unique features of schizophrenia that may threaten each of these elements of informed consent, and it proposes additional safeguards in the process of gaining informed consent from individuals with schizophrenia in order to maximise the decision-making potential of this patient population.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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