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Human participants remain a valuable resource for clinical research, health, regulation, and understanding the effects of how medication or treatment will translate to humans. Furthermore, following the necessary and proper policies to create these solutions is a top priority. These policies and oversight ensure that a participant or patient is consenting, knowledgeable, and protected and provide a clear, welcoming path for achieving satisfactory results, such as the Belmont Report and other landmark principles in human subject research clarify.
Having a diverse group of subjects also allows researchers to understand diseases and conditions that affect certain populations, such as health disparities, and engage in equity and inclusion. Since 2017, NCCU and Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute have also worked together to advance health equity and strive to welcome human participants from all backgrounds.
How we recruit, interact, and engage with participants is a monumental part of human research at NCCU. Protecting volunteers is paramount and essential to ensuring informed consent and documentation. Participation is always voluntary, and a subject may choose not to participate or to quit participating at any time. Please know that this decision will not affect current or future relations with NCCU or any existing services you may receive.
Three key features of informed consent are as follows:
- Disclosing to potential research participants information to make an informed decision
- Facilitating the understanding of what has been disclosed
- Promoting the voluntariness of the decision-making process to participate or not in the research study
Source: HHS
Learn more about medical research through the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
What Is Medical Research?
Participating in Social and Behavioral Health Research
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