Table 3 Participant characteristics of respondents, including whether respondents had, in the last three years, any paid affiliations with pharmaceutical, medical device or diagnostic companies. Trial experience refers to whether professionals had any experience designing or running a clinical trial, participation in a clinical trial as a patient was not included in this category. Background of the respondent refers to the reason for their interest or involvement in clinical trials. The patient/consumer category included all current and former trial patients, current or former cancer patients not involved in a clinical trial, parents, guardians or caregivers of children currently or formerly involved in clinical trials and consumer or patient advocates in general. CRA/CRO is a broad term referring to any respondent who identified themselves as being a clinical research associate, working for a clinical research organisation, a clinical trial manager, study coordinator or related position. All respondents resided in Australia at the time of completing the survey
Participant Background | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | Concordant data (%) | Discordant data (%) | Total (%) |
Paid affiliation | |||
Yes | 3 (7) | 4 (11) | 7 (9) |
No | 40 (93) | 33 (89) | 73 (91) |
Trial experience | |||
No experience | 8 (18) | 12 (32) | 20 (25) |
Less than 10 years experience | 14 (33) | 14 (38) | 28 (35) |
10 years or greater experience | 18 (42) | 11 (30) | 29 (36) |
Other | 3 (7) | 0 (0) | 3 (4) |
Background | |||
Health economist | 3 (7) | 2 (5) | 5 (6) |
Health professional | 9 (21) | 16 (44) | 25 (31) |
Patient / consumer | 7 (16) | 8 (22) | 15 (19) |
Scientist | 5 (12) | 2 (5) | 7 (8) |
Statistician | 11 (25) | 3 (8) | 14 (18) |
CRA/CRO | 6 (14) | 2 (5) | 8 (10) |
Other | 2 (5) | 4 (11) | 6 (8) |