The Pros & Cons Of Participating In Medical Research Studies

Each year, hundreds of volunteers participate in medical research studies- every study and research has different guidelines and works ethics. At some clinical trials, the researchers work continuously to incorporate the participants and in some studies, the research takes place in breaks.

Moreover, the clinical trial does not require any specific qualifications or standards to involve volunteers, but the main thing which is checked before starting a clinical trial is the health of the volunteers. Also, if you are also eager to learn about the clinical trials or want to participate in the studies, you can easily participate then. But before taking part in a clinical trial, you must know about its details, pros, and cons.

Here are some highlights on the points that any volunteer should know before going for clinical trials.

 Pros:

• Individuals who take part in clinical research keeps under the supervision of top doctors, dentists, phycologists, nurses, and technicians, etc. That means your and your body will be under a professional team and throughout the whole process, you will be given the best care.
• The person who involves in medical research plays his/her role in saving someone’s life in the present situation or for future needs. He/she will be given proper information about the test he/she is going to perform to devote their precious part of life in medical research.
• The patient selected for a research study meet with new challenges and technologies of the medical field. He gets to know things that are not known by common people and later with his experience he can teach his family and neighbor about living a healthy life. In short, he will gain much knowledge about medicine that he can use it for guiding people in his society.
• For some people, some tests are reassuring, but with medical research patients, he will be given tests that are rarely tried on any other patient or volunteer. That means a clinical research individual has access to the maximum number of body tests that can help him personally for his treatment in case of an emergency.

Cons:

• Involving in clinical trials may expect the maximum number of hospital visits as compared to the standard treatment. You can get a call any time of a day or night from the research institute for examing the treatment in your body.
• The current treatment you are getting may not show effective results than your regular medical treatment methods. Your body can stop giving results for any random medical test that can terminate you from inspecting that particular test.
• Only in some rare cases, there may be a negative effect on your body from medical treatment or medicines. That can be due to some allergies you might have but did not know about, that is why your body may show a negative response to some treatment methods.

Note: The side-effect is only seen in rare cases and for a particular treatment, it is not always the case.

• You might have to pay extra for traveling when you will be called from the hospital. The location may not be convenient for you, and chances are that you might end up feeling overwhelming in the mid of the treatment.

Each year many healthy volunteers participate in medical trials; each treatment has its guidelines. They do not join as they will get paid for clinical research, but some volunteers are enthusiastic for involving in new medical technologies for helping needy people.

The tests are done in three phases, in the first and second phases the treatment is carefully examined before sending the tests in the laboratory, and in the third phase if the treatment is successful it is given to the required patients.

In nutshell, the medical research study is a fair deal in earning money and getting medical treatments for leading and saving many lives.