| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | Peer review (abstract) |
| Title: | Analysing and optimising Informed Consent in cooperation with ethics committees and medical researchers |
| Authors: | De Nardi, Gianni Matic, Igor Steiner, Felix |
| et. al: | No |
| Conference details: | AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021 |
| Issue Date: | 17-Aug-2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Informed Consent; Transdisciplinarity |
| Subject (DDC): | 400: Language, linguistics |
| Abstract: | Medical researchers are ethically and legally required to inform participants and get written permission before enrolling them into a human research project (Informed Consent). Accordingly, information and consent represent a complex procedure, and the participant concerned “must receive comprehensible oral and written information” (Swiss legislation: Human Research Act (HRA) Art. 16). A triangle of stakeholders is involved in the procedure: ethics committees that review and approve research projects and Informed Consent (IC) documents, medical researchers who produce the documents and discuss enrolment with patients, and patients who have to be informed comprehensibly. From a linguistic point of view, the question arises as to which perceptions of comprehensibility form the basis of the IC process and how shared language can be established considering the complex relationship between these stakeholders. This contribution presents findings from two perspectives (ethics committees and researchers) while considering the needs of all three stakeholders. Firstly, the conceptualisation of comprehensibility among three ethic committees is presented, and steps toward harmonisation are outlined. Secondly, limitations of how researchers conduct oral IC information are analysed, and the measures that were implemented to improve patient information are discussed. A transdisciplinary approach is key in establishing these solutions because they do not stem from linguistic analysis alone but have been developed in close collaboration with members of ethics committees and medical researchers. Thus, the project shows how the expertise of applied linguistics in cooperation with practitioners can deliver an important impact in both academic analysis and optimisation of professional procedures. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/24195 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Language Competence (ILC) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | Informed Consent in verständlicher Form Aufklärung in verständlicher Form in der Humanforschung |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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De Nardi, G., Matic, I., & Steiner, F. (2021, August 17). Analysing and optimising Informed Consent in cooperation with ethics committees and medical researchers. AILA World Congress, Online, 15-20 August 2021.
De Nardi, G., Matic, I. and Steiner, F. (2021) ‘Analysing and optimising Informed Consent in cooperation with ethics committees and medical researchers’, in AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021.
G. De Nardi, I. Matic, and F. Steiner, “Analysing and optimising Informed Consent in cooperation with ethics committees and medical researchers,” in AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021, Aug. 2021.
DE NARDI, Gianni, Igor MATIC und Felix STEINER, 2021. Analysing and optimising Informed Consent in cooperation with ethics committees and medical researchers. In: AILA World Congress, online, 15-20 August 2021. Conference presentation. 17 August 2021
De Nardi, Gianni, Igor Matic, and Felix Steiner. 2021. “Analysing and Optimising Informed Consent in Cooperation with Ethics Committees and Medical Researchers.” Conference presentation. In AILA World Congress, Online, 15-20 August 2021.
De Nardi, Gianni, et al. “Analysing and Optimising Informed Consent in Cooperation with Ethics Committees and Medical Researchers.” AILA World Congress, Online, 15-20 August 2021, 2021.
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