Research Article
Awareness and Perception of Healthcare Providers about Proxy Consent in Critical Care Research
Table 4
Healthcare provider’s awareness about the information that should be discussed during proxy consent process (n = 145).
| | Statements | Total (n = 145) | Physicians (n = 58) | Pharmacists (n = 23) | Nurses (n = 64) | value# | | Percent agreed, n (%) |
| | Discuss all the details of research protocols and procedure | 111 (76.6) | 46 (86.8) | 21 (75.0) | 44 (68.8) | 0.122 | | Discuss the potential benefits of the proposed research | 60 (41.4) | 21 (39.6) | 13 (46.4) | 26 (40.6) | 0.908 | | Discuss other alternative therapeutic options | 122 (84.1) | 48 (90.6) | 23 (82.1) | 51 (79.7) | 0.141 | | Discuss the incremental risks related to the research | 64 (44.1) | 23 (43.4) | 11 (39.3) | 30 (46.9) | 0.044 | | States that participation in the research is voluntary and the participants can withdraw from the research at any time | 97 (66.9) | 36 (67.9) | 18 (64.3) | 43 (67.2) | 0.924 |
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#: using Pearson Chi-square test. : significant at 0.05 significance level. |
