title: Influence of scary beliefs about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study on willingness to participate in research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess whether scary/alarming beliefs about details on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (TSS) are associated with willingness and/or fear to participate in biomedical research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Scary beliefs about TSS were examined for 565 Black and White adults who had heard of the TSS. Multivariate analyses by race were used to measure association.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No association between scary beliefs and willingness or fear to participate in research was found (P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings provide additional evidence that awareness or detailed knowledge about the TSS does not appear today to be a major factor influencing Blacks' willingness to participate in research.
authors.affiliation: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. jenna.david@moffitt.org
authors.forename: Jenna L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: B Lee
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Ralph V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000407:Alabama; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / Q000208:ethnology*; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D045809:Human Rights Abuses; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018579:Patient Selection; D035842:Research Subjects / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D013587:Syphilis; D035502:Trust; D014481:United States; D044465:White People