Protocol for surveying participants and professionals’ experiences in an international kidney transplant clinical trial

Abstract

Therapeutic misconception is a phenomenon in which participants or researchers misunderstand the nature and purpose of a clinical trial, believing that the primary goal of the trial is to provide them with individualized therapeutic benefit rather than to generate generalizable knowledge that will benefit future patients. Therefore, the perspectives of participants and researchers on these issues are central to improving the quality of health research to increase participant awareness and avoid therapeutic misconceptions