All the subjects gave signed informed consent after the purpose of the study and the protocol had been informed and explained to them and before any procedure was performed.
Indeed, it is increasingly becoming a common practice to see companies go the extra mile to inform and explain the impact of some of their environmental activities and initiatives to major stakeholder groups (Wilmshurst and Frost 2000).
Research into how to best inform and explain the findings and how to ensure that the changes necessary to make society sustainable are acceptable to the public is also needed.
Procedural discourse is one example of language to inform and explain and was the focus of the current study.
The students practicing had to check whether they had the right client then inform and explain the steps of the procedure to the patient.
Participants were sampled for two separate qualitative studies within the process evaluation: 1) an exploration of the feasibility of the telephone support intervention [ 36]; and 2) a longitudinal study to inform and explain the results of the main trial.
Evidence from naturalistic observation of older adults indicates that language to "inform and explain" accounts for 12.3% of total communicative activity, making it one of the most frequent everyday uses of language (Davidson et al., 2003).
In biobank studies, there has been much debate on whether research participants have a right to know (or not to know) information (Ravitsky and Wilfond, 2006; Brownsword and Wale, 2017), who should be responsible for informing and explaining to participants, to what extent of the result and information should be disclosed, and what criteria should be adopted for returning research results.
Despite this, very limited research has explored how speakers communicate when informing and explaining.
We think that a general leaflet, distributed to all patients visiting the hospital, informing and explaining them in clear and accessible language about the possibility of using their data for research purposes, would be the best way to go.
