Table 4.
Differences in attitudes according to willingness to participate in genetic research by ethnic group
| Mean scores (standard deviation)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blacks Willing to participate | Hispanics Willing to participate | Whites Willing to participate | ||||
| Genetic research attitudes | Yes (nλ=λ125) | No (nλ=λ48) | Yes (nλ=λ79) | No (nλ=λ23) | Yes (nλ=λ60) | No (nλ=λ16) |
| λBeneficial to individual and society | 15.12 (4.76) | 15.98 (3.63) | 16.47 (3.56) | 16.26 (3.52) | 17.03 (2.58) | 14.88 (2.96)b, ** |
| Important to participate for education and knowledge | 9.94 (3.20) | 10.17 (2.45) | 10.59 (2.13) | 10.17 (2.03) | 11.18 (1.29) | 9.63 (1.48)*** |
| Mistrust and Wariness | 8.36 (3.58) | 10.78 (2.75)*** | 8.44 (2.65) | 10.09 (2.65)** | 8.76 (2.44) | 8.33 (2.80) |
| Desire to learn more about genetic research | 6.71 (2.25) | 6.70 (1.67) | 6.65 (1.49) | 6.61 (1.73) | 6.93 (1.44) | 6.75 (1.66) |
| Stigma | 3.24 (2.35) | 4.07 (1.82)* | 3.13 (1.51) | 3.87 (1.84)* | 3.68 (1.64) | 4.25 (1.88) |
| Participate only for incentives | 4.09 (2.53) | 5.28 (1.96)*** | 5.02 (1.76) | 5.13 (2.01) | 5.55 (1.43) | 5.42 (1.64) |
| Mental illness caused by both genes and environment | 8.01 (2.75) | 8.46 (2.12) | 8.39 (2.11) | 8.83 (1.77) | 8.77 (1.54) | 8.79 (1.77) |
| Mental illness caused primarily by genes | 4.79 (1.93) | 5.10 (1.49) | 5.34 (1.47) | 5.78 (1.24) | 5.15 (1.28) | 4.75 (1.46) |
a
Higher mean scores indicate greater endorsement of a given factor
b
Analysis of variance based on the general linear model, F-ratio two-tailed significance:
*
P≤0.05.
**
P≤0.01.
***
P≤0.001.