Intervention/Non-Intervention Research

We tell you about clinical research from the start, but we haven’t even told you that there are different types of clinical research!

Don’t worry we’ll do basics ;)

In fact there are two main groups : intervention research and non-intervention research.

See, it is not that hard to remember! Let’s go further…

Intervention Research:

Intervention research are research on a medical treatment, on a surgical method, on a medical or surgical material (a new syringe, a new breathing apparatus for example) and so on.

For this type of research, there is an act on the person who participates in the research. It means that the patient is given a medication that will act on his/her organism or he/she will get a medical or surgical act. In brief you do something to the patient, in addition to its usual medical treatment, that can have consequences for him/her.

To sum up, they do or give you something that can have consequences on you, isn’t it great? J

 Non-Intervention Research:

Here you do not do anything to the patient that is not done for his/her usual medical care. It is observational research or research for in vitro diagnostics.

Just so that you will understand the last one: in vitro diagnostics are the research which test reagents used by doctors to diagnose patients.
There you don’t have to worry about the impact on yourself as they won’t do anything that wouldn’t have been done anyway.
 
There are more detailed information on the different kind of research but it’s enough for today J