Using data from our randomized trial of methods to improve informed consent comprehension, we performed an additional analysis to define independent factors associated with improved patient understanding.
Nevertheless, this effort represents an important development towards improving informed consent comprehension.
This study reports the psychometric properties of a digitised audio informed consent comprehension questionnaire when tested in a sample of clinical trial participants in urban and rural settings in the Gambia.
11 This study was designed to develop and psychometrically evaluate an informed consent comprehension questionnaire for a low-literacy research population in the Gambia, for whom English is not the native language.
34 43 44 Furthermore, owing to a lack of a specific 'gold standard' tool to measure informed consent comprehension, we could not examine concurrent (criterion) validity in which participants' scores on DICCQ could be compared with the participants' scores on the 'gold standard' obtained at approximately the same point in time (concurrently).
While focusing on liberal arts is definitely important to teach our children, John Oliver's uncovering of Americans ill-informed comprehension of the Internet proves we need to place computer science at the same core level as math, science, history and reading.
After ensuring that the wordings of the paper questionnaire were consistent with the digitised version, translated audios in Mandinka, Wolof and Fula were subsequently recorded as voice-overs on the digitised questionnaire, which will be subsequently referred to as the Digitised Informed Consent Comprehension Questionnaire (DICCQ) in this manuscript.
Evidence of context's significance in reception is demonstrated by the frequency of context evaluations (the most mentioned type of evaluation for both sculptures in the newspaper and interview data), how often contextual criteria informed aesthetic evaluations and comprehension of the sculptures, and the socio-economic variety of receivers who used contextual criteria in their responses.
If the language deficit involves comprehension, then informed consent will obviously be difficult to obtain from that particular subject, and they may have to be excluded from the study, or proxy consent sought.
