[NIFL-HEALTH:2175] Re: Consent and Confidentiality

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The Mid-Carolina Health Literacy Network is extremely proud to be "off and 
running" with "Mission HealthLit:  Connecting Health Practicitioners, 
Educators, Business Leaders and Policy Makers", thanks to Pfizer's generous 
support.  Soon, we expect to have a website with some details to share with 
all.

Getting started, we have run smack into the issue of confidentiality and 
consent.  I'd like to post the scenario and ask for your advice:

A third-year medical student is developing a take-home multimedia information 
packet on diabetes.  She has asked our help in getting input from low 
literacy adults with diabetes as she works on the packet's contents and 
format.

We thought we would provide her with a list of our volunteer tutors and their 
phone numbers.  She will randomly call some of them to ask if they are aware 
of whether their learning partner has diabetes.  If by chance she finds a 
tutor who knows his/her learner is diabetic, she will then discuss with the 
tutor whether the tutor would be comfortable placing a call to the learner.  
If so, the tutor would tell the learner about the project, and invite the 
learner to call the medical student to participate in a short, oral 
questionnaire on the phone about the take-home packet.

Reactions, please.  We have a raging debate gong on in our office.  Many 
thanks.  

Deborah W. Yoho
Chief Executive Officer
Greater Columbia Literacy Council
921 Woodrow Street  
Columbia, SC  29205
803/765-2555   dwyoho@aol.com



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