PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - DeCosta, A
AU  - D’Souza, N
AU  - Krishnan, S
AU  - Chhabra, M S
AU  - Shihaam, I
AU  - Goswami, K
TI  - Community based trials and informed consent in rural north India
AID  - 10.1136/jme.2002.001065
DP  - 2004 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 318--323
VI  - 30
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/30/3/318.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/30/3/318.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2004 Jun 01; 30
AB  - Disease control has increasingly shifted towards large scale, disease specific, public health interventions. The emerging problems of HIV, hepatitis, malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, childhood pneumonia, and meningitis have made community based trials of interventions a cost effective long term investment for the health of a population. The authors conducted this study to explore the complexities involved in obtaining informed consent to participation in rural north India, and how people there make decisions related to participation in clinical research.