Enhancing Standards for Ethical Responsibilities within Clinical Research

A set of challenges have been identified in clinical research within the United States given inefficiencies in different processes, slow participant enrollment, and high costs. In an interview featured in the second issue of The Respiratory Report, the quarterly pulmonology research newsletter powered by the American Lung Association Research Foundation, Denise Kent, PhD, APRN, discussed her team’s research in this area.

Kent serves as an assistant professor for the department of biobehavioral nursing science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kent spoke in the latest issue of The Respiratory Report about the Returning Computed tomography rEsults to actIVE Lung Health Cohort participants (RECEIVE) study and its aims.

“The received study is an ancillary study embedded within the Lung Health Cohort study, also referred to as the LHC,” Kent said. “The LHC is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and is a study of 4000 healthy individuals between the ages of 25 and 35 years. It is the first ever study to focus on millennials. The overarching objective of the LHC is to establish a cohort of young adults for the purpose of defining lung health and developing targets to intercept chronic lung disease at its earliest stages.”

Kent went on to describe additional details regarding the RECEIVE study’s objectives and the implications of her team’s work.

“The overall objective of the received study is to develop a tool to support the return of chest CT results within the LHC,” Kent said. “The long term goal is to establish a process by which the return of individual research results is standardized for participants. Hopefully, our approach will inform how other studies return individual research results across a range of diseases and conditions across multiple studies.”

To learn more about Kent's research, view the interview above or read her contribution to the second issue of The Respiratory Report here:

Ethical Excellence: Returning Computed tomography rEsults to actIVE Lung Health Cohort participants (RECEIVE)