The Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Assessing its Impact on Willingness to Participate in Biomedical Studies

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 26.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2008 Nov;19(4):1168–1180. doi: 10.1353/hpu.0.0067

7 items on the TSS Facts &Myth Quiz:	Factually Correct Answers for the TSS Facts & Myth Quiz Score^a

1) Black men and women were subjects in the study	False
2) The subjects were injected with syphilis	False
3) The nurse who recruited them was Black	TRUE
4) The study lasted 40 years	TRUE
5) The subjects were told they had syphilis	False
6) The study was run by U.S. government doctors	TRUE
7) The study ended when penicillin was discovered as a cure for syphilis	False
^aTotal score could range from 0-7, with one point for each factually correct answer given.