Cross-sectional study on patients' understanding and views of the informed consent procedure of a secondary stroke prevention trial.

Background And Purpose: Improving understanding of study contents and procedures might enhance recruitment into studies and retention during follow-up. However, data in stroke patients on understanding of the informed consent (IC) procedure are sparse.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study among ischemic stroke patients taking part in the IC procedure of an ongoing cluster-randomized secondary prevention trial.