Communicating Results to Trial Participants

Offering trial results to the people who took part in the trial is an ethical expectation of trialists, and is starting to become a legal obligation for some trials and settings. But actually doing it is not straightforward. Trialists face many barriers, including logistical challenges, insufficient resources and lack of clarity on how it should be done. It may be particularly difficult when the results to be communicated could be viewed as bad news for some participants. In this webinar we will hear from researchers working in Africa and Asia on very different trials about how they shared results with participants, and have a talk summarising general principles and a practical framework to guide our practice.