Clinical Research Participant Experience Survey

Clinical research success depends on participant satisfaction and clear communication throughout the study process. This Clinical Research Participant Experience Survey template helps research teams, CROs, and clinical trial sites systematically collect feedback about every touchpoint in the participant journey—from informed consent clarity to adverse event reporting and compensation timeliness.

Understanding the participant experience is critical for retention, protocol adherence, and ethical research conduct. This survey covers key areas including study coordinator responsiveness, appointment scheduling convenience, consent comprehension, safety reporting processes, and overall satisfaction with the trial experience.

Built with Paperform, this template features conditional logic to gather detailed feedback based on participant responses, rating scales for quantitative measurement, and open-ended questions for qualitative insights. The professional, accessible design ensures participants feel comfortable sharing honest feedback.

You can customize questions to match your specific study protocols, add your institutional branding, and connect responses directly to your research management system or analytics tools. Use Stepper to automatically route feedback to study coordinators, flag concerns for immediate follow-up, or compile satisfaction metrics across multiple trials.

Whether you're conducting Phase I-IV trials, observational studies, or registry research, this survey template helps you maintain ethical standards, improve participant retention, and build a better research experience that respects and values every participant's contribution to advancing medical knowledge.