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Background: Information sheets for clinical research are becoming increasingly complex but the extent to which they are understood is uncertain. The signed informed consent document certifies that the process of informed consent has taken place and provides research participants with comprehensive information about their role in the study. This study was conduct to determine the Perceived Information of Cancer Patients' Informed consent for clinical research. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive-Correlational study.50 patients with cancer were selected through convenience sampling method. A two parts questionnaire including demographics and patient rights in clinical research, were used for data collection. The cancer patientscompeleted the questionnaire before and after informed consent for clinical research. Content and face validity were used. Data were analyzed by different statistical methods such as Pearson correlation coefficient and SPSS16. Results: The perceived information of cancer patients before and after informed consent was positively correlated [0.402] and showed significant differences. [P=0.004]. Conclusion: According to the results, the perceived information of the most cancer patients before and after the inform consent for clinical research was low
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Clinical training is an essential part of nursing education. Its evaluation can deeply affect on its quality and has always been a challenge for nursing education. The aim of this descriptive study was to compare satisfaction of nursing students with two methods of clinical evaluation, namely, objective structured clinical examination [OSCE] and practical examination in faculty of nursing and midwifery affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran in 2007. 44 sophomore students in their orthopedic clinical training were selected by convenience sampling method and evaluated by the two evaluation methods. Data were collected by a satisfaction questionnaire in 3 cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Content and inter-rater methods were used for validity and reliability of the questionnaire respectively. SPSS package [ver. 13] was used for data analysis. Satisfaction rates of nursing students in the 3 domains were higher in OSCE than in practical examination with a significant difference in achieving educational goals in the domains and in total [P < 0.001]. In this study, OSCE was used in this group of students for thier clinical training for the first time. It seems that this type of evaluation may better satisfy nursing students in their clinical training