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Many women aren’t aware of the benefits from their participation in clinical research. According to a recent survey by the Society for Women's Health Research, only 9 percent of women have ever participated in a medical research study.

Peter Schmidt, M.D., a clinician and investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and his team are facing the challenge of declining numbers of women volunteering to participate in their studies, especially those trials investigating postpartum depression (PPD) and midlife perimenopausal depression.

When the NIMH midlife clinic began in Bethesda, Md., in 1989, a newspaper article announced the opening of this program and asked women to volunteer. “We received 300 phone calls and couldn’t keep up with calling them back,” Schmidt said. “Now we only get a handful of calls each month.”

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