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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

Clinical Trials

Profiles - Mental health trials

Fenella - Interview 20

Fenella is a clinical audit assistant in a mental health NHS trust. She is single. Ethnic background/nationality' White South African, UK citizen.

Anton - Interview 28

Anton is an auditor. He is single. Ethnic background/nationality' Sri Lankan. (You can see more of Anton talking about his experiences of depression on our site on Mental health' ethnic minority experiences, Interview 13).
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