Patient Representatives' Perspective on Informed Consent: Nominal Group Data

For Task 1.6 of the i-CONSENT project, a one day workshop was organised with nine attendees from eight European patient groups. During the workshop, Nominal Group Technique (NGT) was used to explore issues that were considered pertinent within each of the four themes (comprehension, patient expectations, gender and assent), and to reach a consensus in terms of their significance. During this exercise, the workshop facilitator presented a short introduction to the theme, before each participant was given sticky notes and instructed to write down as many individual issues as possible using a separate sticky note for each idea. There was no limit to the number of ideas the participants could generate. This stage was conducted in silence and repeated for each of the four themes. The attached documents include the list of all the ideas collected on sticky notes notes during this stage and the ranking of the items done by the participants.