Documents for trial participants
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This branch covers participant-facing clinical trial materials, divided by their purpose: recruitment, pretrial information, explanation of data use, consent, assent and return of results. Documents used in routine care, trial registration and results posting, ethics review and general plain-language techniques sit outside this branch.
- Recruiting trial participants online — social-media advertisements, prescreeners, review-board approval, comments, landing pages and trial maps
- Lay information published before a trial starts — lay titles, registry brief summaries and lay protocol synopses for prospective participants
- Explaining what happens to research data — patient-informed videos, infographics and educational materials about data use, sharing and privacy
- Informed consent materials for a clinical trial — content and process requirements, understandable writing, visual design, testing, special settings and support across the trial
- Assent forms and information materials for young participants — age-appropriate information, assent and dissent, and review with young people
- Lay summaries of clinical trial results — purpose, regulation, preparation, review, formats, testing and translation of results for participants and the public