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KMID : 1025620160190010001
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2016 Volume.19 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.13
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Parents’ Understanding of, and Satisfaction with, the Explanations Provided in Pediatric Clinical Trials
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Ahn Ju-Hee
Yoon Young-Ran
Na Yeon-Kyung
Hong Hae-Sook
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to assess parents’ understanding of, and satisfaction with, the explanations provided by researchers conducting pediatric clinical trials. Self-report questionnaires were collected from forty one parents of children treated at a national university hospital in South Korea. A Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman correlation test were performed on the collected data using SPSS Statistics 20.0. The mean for understanding was 71.1 points out of 100. The item that was best understood was collective benefit (84.3 points); the item that was least understood was compensation for risk (40.9 points). The predictors of understanding were the explanation time of the researcher (p=.045) and the feelings of difficulty with the researcher’s explanation (p=.033). The mean for explanation satisfaction was 73.6 points and was related to understanding (p<.001). The results of this study suggest that researchers in pediatric clinical trials should identify items that parents are likely to find difficult to understand, spend sufficient time explaining procedures to parents, and match the level of the explanations they offered to individual parents’ general level of understanding.
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KEYWORD
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child, clinical trial, parent, comprehension, satisfaction
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