O processo de consentimento livre e esclarecido em pesquisa: uma nova abordagem

INTRODUCTION: The Informed Consent allows the person invited to participate of a reserch project to understand the procedures, risks, discomforts, benefits and rights involved; determining an autonomic decision. We want to verify in the informed consent process the adequacy of given information to research subjects in a collective way. METHODS: A research project was chosen from the gynecologic area. The collective obtainment consisted of an oral presentation. After that, The Consent form was shown. Forty-five patients were interwied, immediately after the consent obtainment. RESULTS: Remembrance capacity of information about procedures, risks and benefits explained were verified. All participants (100%) remembered the procedures, 54% of them remembered the risks and 96% the probable benefits. Comparing these data with others from a similar study using conventional informed consent process (individual information transmission) the subjects remember more information in the present study. CONCLUSION: These results evidence the possibility to inform collectively the research subjects when getting the Informed Consent in those projects where this choice is available.