Mental Health Clinical Trials Useful Links
This section of the site is all about mental health clinical trials. It is a pilot project and the pages will be undergoing further development.
Clinical trials are research studies involving people. They are designed to test the safety and effectiveness of new treatments. Mental health clinical trials test new treatments – talking therapies as well as drugs – for people who use mental health services.
These pages have been written for adult service users and carers and for people who run mental health clinical trials. They provide clear and simple information about how clinical trials work and what to expect if you take part in one. The goal is to help people make a decision about whether to take part in a clinical trial.
The site also aims to encourage researchers to work in partnership with service users and carers to develop and run their clinical trials. We think this will improve the quality of clinical trials and encourage more people to participate.
There are five main pages in the mental health clinical trials section of the site. Please use the links below or on the right hand side of every page in the box labelled 'In this section' to find your way around.
- Mental health clinical trials register - Information for service users and carers This section contains a register of publicly-funded mental health clinical trials. The information has been written specifically for service users and carers and tries to avoid using jargon and technical language. You can search the register to find clinical trials that are still recruiting people, to follow trials that are still going on and to find the results from trials that have been completed.
- Mental health clinical trials - Are they for me? This section contains information that has been written for service users and carers. It aims to help people decide whether they want to take part in a mental health clinical trial by discussing some of the issues around taking part – such as capacity to give informed consent and confidentiality. It also aims to help people judge whether a trial is good quality.
- Working with service users and carers - Information for researchers This section has been written for researchers. It discusses how working in partnership with service users and carers right from the beginning of a clinical trial, can help with recruitment. It provides general advice about working with service users and carers as well as links to on-line sources of support.
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