Who volunteers for phase I clinical trials? Influences of anxiety, social anxiety and depressive symptoms on self-selection and the reporting of adverse events

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-582

  Almeida, Luis ^a,b   Kashdan, Todd B ^c   Nunes, Teresa ^a   Coelho, Rui ^b   Albino Teixeira, António ^b,d   Soares Da Silva, Patrício ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Anxiety; Depressive symptoms; Healthy volunteers; Phase I studies; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE AND DISTRESS SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84879254898     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-008-0468-8     Document Type: Article

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