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Taking social relationships seriously: lessons learned from the informed consent practices of a vaccine trial on the Kenyan Coast

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Individual informed consent is a key ethical obligation for clinical studies, but empirical studies show that key requirements are often not met. Common recommendations to strengthen consent in low income settings include seeking permission from community members through existing structures before approaching individuals, considering informed consent as a process rather than a single event, and assessing participant understanding using questionnaires. In this paper, we report on a qualitative...

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Peer reviewed

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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Tropical Medicine
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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya
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Wellcome Trust Bioethics for Medical Research Programme, UK More from this funder
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Social Science & Medicine Journal website
Volume:
67
Issue:
5
Pages:
708-720
Publication date:
2008-09-01
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02779536
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English
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2010-12-10

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