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BACKGROUND: Classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, evoke certain kinds of altered states of consciousness. Specific features of the experience, such as its allegedly ineffable nature, have been discussed as posing challenges to the informed consent process. A growing call for tailored informed consent documents (ICDs) in the psychedelic bioethics literature raises the question of how closely ICDs used in contemporary psychedelic trials reflect the concrete suggestions and proposals offered by psychedelic bioethicists. METHODS: = 28; 28 clinical trials across 13 unique sites). Coders demonstrated good reliability (κ = .683). RESULTS: did not appear as frequently in ICDs. CONCLUSIONS: Scholars in psychedelic bioethics have called for the inclusion of a variety of potential risks and benefits in ICDs. It will be important to continue debating which elements are worth including in ICDs such that potential research participants are presented with the most salient factors relevant to their decision about joining a study. We provide a table of best practices applied by our sample of ICDs.
Cheung et al. (Wed,) studied this question.