Clinical Trial Diversity
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Clinical trials are research studies involving human volunteers to evaluate medical products like medications, vaccines, or devices for safety and effectiveness. These studies may also show which medical products or therapies work best for people with certain illnesses or for certain groups of people. Ensuring people from diverse backgrounds join clinical trials is key to advancing health equity.
5 things you should know about clinical trials
- Clinical trials are research studies conducted with people—they are designed to answer specific research questions about medical products or therapies.
- Participation is always voluntary—you can leave a study whenever you want.
- Clinical trials often need healthy volunteers to help answer research questions.
- Your safety is a priority. Researchers must follow detailed protocols and the FDA’s safety requirements to make each trial as safe as possible.
- The study will be explained to you in an informed consent process before you agree to join.
The importance of diverse participation in clinical trials
Participants in clinical trials should represent the patients that will use the medical products. This is often not the case—people from racial and ethnic minority and other diverse groups are underrepresented in clinical research. This is a concern because people of different ages, races, and ethnicities may react differently to medical products. To achieve health equity so all can benefit from clinical trials, we are committed to taking steps to change this.
Joining a clinical trial might be a good choice for you if:
- You and your health care provider believe a clinical trial may provide another option when standard treatments have failed.
- You want to help test new medical products or therapies in the diverse patients likely to use them.
- You want to help researchers find better ways to fight diseases.
Learn more
If you think a clinical trial may be right for you, talk to your health care provider. You can also search for clinical trials in your area at www.ClinicalTrials.gov. To watch videos and view a list of questions to ask researchers, visit www.hhs.gov/about-research-participation.
To obtain concise information about who participated in clinical trials that supported the FDA approval of new drugs, visit Drug Trials Snapshots at www.fda.gov/drugtrialssnapshot.
For more information on health equity, visit www.fda.gov/healthequity.
Download Clinical Trial Diversity Resources
- Clinical Trial Diversity Fact Sheet
- Clinical Trial Diversity Brochure
- Clinical Trial Diversity Infographics
Additional Languages
The documents below are available in several foreign language(s). FDA offers these translations as a service to a broad international audience. We hope that you find these translations useful. While the agency has attempted to obtain translations that are as faithful as possible to the English version, we recognize that the translated versions may not be as precise, clear, or complete as the English version. The official version of these documents is the English version.
- Fact Sheet: Clinical Trial Diversity
- Brochure: Research Needs You
- Infographic: 4 Ways To Be A #ClinicalTrialsChampion
الوثائق الموجودة أدناه متوفرة بعدة لغات أجنبية. وتقدم إدارة الغذاء والدواء تلك الترجمات كخدمة لجمهور دولي واسع. ونأمل أن تجدوا هذه الترجمات مفيدة. وفي الوقت الذي حاولت فيه الإدارة الحصول على ترجمات أقرب ما يمكن للنسخة الإنجليزية، فقد تبين لنا أن النسخ المترجمة ربما لا تكون بنفس الدقة أو الوضوح أو الكمال مثل النسخة الإنجليزية، ومن ثم فإن النسخة الرسمية من هذه الوثائق هي النسخة الإنجليزية.
- ᎤᏙᎯᏳ ᎪᏪᎳᏅ: ᏅᎠᏯᏍᏗ ᏴᏫ ᎨᏥᎪᎵᏰᏍᎬᎢ ᏧᎾᏓᎴᎿᎢ (Fact Sheet: Clinical Trial Diversity)
- ᏓᏟᎶᏍᏗᏓᏅ ᎠᎪᏩᏛᏗ ᏗᎦᎳᏫᎩ: 4 ᏱᏗᎬᏁᏗᎢ ᎾᎢ ᎨᏒᎩ Ꮎ #ᏅᎠᏯᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᏕᎨᏥᎪᎵᏰᏍᎬᎢ ᎤᏓᎵᏅᎯᏛᎢ (Infographic: 4 Ways To Be A #ClinicalTrialsChampion)
FDA ᏓᎵᏍᎪᎸᏗ ᎯᎠ ᏗᏁᏢᏔᏅᎯ ᎯᎢᎾᎢ ᎢᏯᏓᏛᏁᏗ ᎾᎢ ᎠᏯᏖᎾ ᎠᏰᎵ ᏍᏆᏂᏱ ᏚᎾᏙᏢᏒᎢ ᎤᎾᏛᏓᏍᏗ. ᎤᏚᎩ ᎣᎬᎭ ᎾᏍᎩᎾᎢ ᏣᏩᏛᏗ ᎯᎠ ᎠᏁᏢᏔᏅᎯ ᏗᎨᎬᏙᏗ. ᎠᏏᏉ ᎾᏍᎩ ᏗᎦᏘᏯ ᎦᎵ ᎤᏁᎵᏔᏅ ᏧᏁᏍᏗ ᎠᏁᏢᏔᏅᎯ ᎾᏍᎩᎾᎢ ᎨᏒ ᎤᏬᎯᏳᏒ ᎾᏍᎩ ᏱᎬᏩᎵᏍᏙᏗ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎩᎵᏏ ᏄᏓᎴᏒᎢ, ᎣᏦᎵᎩ ᎾᏍᎩᎾᎢ ᎠᏁᏢᏔᏅᎢ ᏄᏓᎴᏒᎢ ᏰᎵᏊ ᏞᏍᏗ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎧᎵ ᏗᏙᎵᎩ, ᎤᎵᎦᎵᏴᏓ, ᎠᎴ ᎠᏍᏆᏛᏃᏅ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎩᎵᏏ ᏄᏓᎴᏒᎢ. ᎾᏍᎩ ᏗᏓᏂᎸᏨᎢ ᏄᏓᎴᏒᎢ ᎯᎠ ᎪᏪᎳᏅᎢ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎩᎵᏏ ᏄᏓᎴᏒᎢ.
- 情况说明书: 临床试验多样性 (Fact Sheet: Clinical Trial Diversity)
- 信息图表: 4 种方法成为 #临床试验倡导者 (Infographic: 4 Ways To Be A #ClinicalTrialsChampion)
下列文件可用若干种文字阅读。美国食品药物监督管理局是为方便国际各界而提供这些译文的;希望它们对您有帮助。本局的心愿是力图让文件译文尽可能忠实于英文原文,但我们也知道译文会有不如原文精确、明晰的情况,甚至会有漏译的地方。因此,英文版是这些文件的正式文本。
- 簡報: 臨床試驗多樣性 (Fact Sheet: Clinical Trial Diversity)
- 信息圖表: 4 種方法成為 #臨床試驗倡導者 (Infographic: 4 Ways To Be A #ClinicalTrialsChampion)
以下文件有幾種外語版本。美國食品及藥物管理局將這些翻譯作為一種服務提供給廣大的國際讀者。我們希望您覺得這些翻譯有用。儘管該機構已試圖獲得盡可能忠實於英文版本的翻譯,但我們認識到翻譯版本可能不如英文版本準確,清晰或完整。這些文件的正式版本為英文版本。
- Fiche d’information: La Diversité Dans Les Essais Cliniques (Fact Sheet: Clinical Trial Diversity)
- Infographie: 4 Façons D'être Un #ChampionDesEssaisCliniques (Infographic: 4 Ways To Be A #ClinicalTrialsChampion)
Les documents ci-dessous sont disponibles en plusieurs langues. Ces traductions sont fournies par la FDA pour rendre service à un vaste public international. Nous espérons qu’elles vous seront utiles; nous avons pris le plus grand soin pour qu’elles soient le plus exactes possible, mais il peut arriver que le texte traduit ne soit pas aussi précis, clair ou complet que l’original en anglais. Veuillez noter que le texte officiel de ces documents est le texte anglais.
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