Drug Trial Decision‐Making Among Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and their Study Partners
Chelsea G Cox, Christian R Salazar, Daniel L Gillen, Joshua D Grill · 2025
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Chelsea Cox, Christian Salazar, Daniel Gillen, and Joshua Grill study how patients and partners decide about drug trials in a 2025 paper. Trials for early Alzheimer's enroll people with mild memory loss who show disease markers. Each patient joins with a study partner, often a spouse. Some patients can no longer fully consent, which makes the choice shared and hard.
The team held structured talks with sixty-five patients and their partners. Each pair heard a sketch of a made-up early-stage drug trial, then answered questions. The researchers checked how much partners drove the choice and how well patients handled health numbers. Most partners were spouses, and the pairs did not always agree. The findings can guide fairer consent talks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chelsea G Cox, Christian R Salazar, Daniel L Gillen, Joshua D Grill |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |