Only a portion of them had signed up for perks that include free stock research, invitations to company presentations and around-the-clock access to an investment adviser.
The other main finding concerned heightened distrust of research invitations, and although this was interwoven with confidentiality and privacy concerns about Internet use in general, it suggested a paradoxical harm arising from, or accentuated by, debriefing itself.
It was not possible to mail research invitations to all of the GPs in practice in the lead author's local area (East Jutland); therefore, GPs were recruited using the snowball method.
The research protocol, invitation letters and consent forms have received ethical approval from the Comité d'éthique sur la recherche chez les êtres humains de la Faculté de médecine (CERFM; Ethics Committee for Human Research of the Faculty of Medicine) of the University of Montreal on July 10, 2007 (Reference Number: CERFM-84 (07) 4 246).
In most research studies, invitations to patients to participate result in a significant nonresponse rate.
It is therefore possible that females and those seeking longer term therapy were more likely to actively seek information from the Black Dog website and be exposed to research recruitment invitations.
HO has received research grants, speaking invitations and conference invitations from Astellas, AstraZeneca, Gilead, MSD, Pfizer and TEVA and consultancy fees from AstraZeneca, Gilead, MSD and TEVA.
JG has received research grants, speaking invitations and conference invitations from Bayer, GSK, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Vifor Pharma, Pfizer and Astellas, and has recent or ongoing consultancies with GSK, Bayer, Pfizer, Novartis, Vifor Pharma, Janssen Cilag, AstraZeneca, Astellas, Theravance and Durata.
They received an explanation of the research and an invitation to participate.
In this context, any mention of research in the invitation to screening was thought likely to increase suspicion and reduce uptake.
