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Promoting Community Engagement for Clinical Trials in Asia
Clinical trials are crucial for advancing medical knowledge and improving public health outcomes. However, clinical trials in Asia encounter unique challenges, such as diverse cultural contexts, varying levels of health...
Informed consent and decision-making in time-sensitive healthcare in Singapore: Understanding and improving patient informed consent and decision-making in time-sensitive clinical trials
This project aims to address the challenges in informed consent and decisions under time-constrained medical settings, via both improving risk communication and seeking optimal decision modes. We focus on time-sensitive...
Public Engagement, Risk Communication and Perceptions in Medical Research (PERCEPT)
Collaborators: NUS Advance-ID, Centre for Biomedical Ethics This programme investigates challenges in informed consent and communication in clinical trials, especially in time-sensitive and emergency settings, via social and behavioural research...
Risk Resonance
Risk Resonance is an innovative public engagement programme that aims to bring risk researchers and experts together with local communities and members of the public most affected by particular risks...
Promoting growth mindsets: a new pathway to supporting individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are more likely to exhibit lower growth mindsets and less self-efficacy towards their blood glucose compared to those without T2D, according to a recent...
Helping financially vulnerable individuals make more judicious medical decisions
Given the increasing practice of patient engagement in joint medical decision-making, this project focuses on how patients’ financial constraints affect their decision-making about medical treatments, namely preference between an aggressive...