This page collates recent papers from the CONSULT project and other relevant publications around the inclusion of adults with impaired capacity to consent. 

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Journal articles from CONSULT

CONSULT publication

Development of a decision support intervention for family members of adults who lack capacity to consent to trials

CONSULT publication

Research involving adults lacking capacity to consent: a content analysis of participant information sheets for consultees and legal representatives in England and Wales

CONSULT publication

An under-represented and underserved population in trials: methodological, structural, and systemic barriers to the inclusion of adults lacking capacity to consent

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Other recent relevant publications

Ageing and dementia

Consent recommendations for research and international data sharing involving persons with dementia

Feasibility of a human factors work-system designed recruitment method for hospitalized persons with dementia

​​​Misfitting the Research Process: Shaping Qualitative Research “in the Field” to Fit People Living With Dementia

Older person's and their caregivers' perspectives and experiences of research participation with impaired decision-making capacity: a scoping review ​

​Partnering with older people as peer researchers

Uncertainties When Applying the Mental Capacity Act in Dementia Research: A Call for Researcher Experiences
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Care homes

Older care-home residents as collaborators or advisors in research: a systematic review

How nurses can support the inclusion in research of older people who lack capacity to consent

Conducting a Randomized Controlled Trial in Care Homes: The Challenges of Recruiting Residents Who Lack Capacity to Consent

​​Supporting autonomy of nursing home residents with dementia in the informed consent process

Community

The cost of community research—recruiting community-dwelling participants to a feasibility primary care cluster randomised controlled trial

​Critical care

Effectiveness of participant recruitment strategies for critical care trials: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
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Perspectives Study: Guidance to inform recruitment and consent in studies involving critically ill patients

Strategies to enhance recruitment and consent to intensive care studies: a qualitative study with researchers and patient–public involvement contributors

End of life and palliative care

​Processes of consent in research for adults with impaired mental capacity nearing the end of life: systematic review and transparent expert consultation (MORECare_Capacity statement

Learning disabilities

Mental capacity to consent to research? Experiences of consenting adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism to research

Participatory research with men with learning disability: informed consent

Process evaluation in intellectual disability research: A case study and the need for adaptation of frameworks
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Supporting informed clinical trial decisions: Results from a RCT evaluating a digital decision support tool for those with intellectual disability

Voiceless subjects? Research ethics and persons with profound intellectual disabilities

Legal frameworks

A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the research provisions under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in England and Wales: Recruitment of adults with capacity and communication difficulties
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Lost Voices in Research: Exposing the Gaps in the Mental Capacity Act 2005

​The UK Mental Capacity Act and consent to research participation: asking the right question​

Public involvement

The ethics of patient and public involvement across the research process: towards partnership with people with aphasia

In it for the long haul: a reflective account of collaborative involvement in aphasia research and education

Surgical trials

Embedding qualitative research in randomised controlled trials to improve recruitment: findings from two recruitment optimisation studies of orthopaedic surgical trials

Aphasia

Creating a novel approach to discourse treatment through coproduction with people with aphasia and speech and language therapists

​People with Aphasia: Capacity to Consent, Research Participation and Intervention Inequalities

STROKE

Brief Consent Methods Enable Rapid Enrollment in Acute Stroke Trial: Results From the TICH-2 Randomized Controlled Trial

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