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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2010 Feb 26;6(4):342–350. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.06.001

Table 5.

Perception of risk level of four research scenarios

DD Participants (n=80) Controls (n=98)
Level of Risk Survey
1
(n=80)
Survey
2
(n=80)
Survey
3
(n=76)
Survey
1v2
Survey
2v3
Survey
1v3
Survey
1
(n=91)
Survey
2
(n=89)
Survey
3
(n=93)
Survey
1v2
Survey
2v3
Survey
1v3
Lumbar Puncture % % % p-value p-value p-value % % % p-value p-value p-value
 Minimal Risk or Less 20 46 30 0.002 0.05 0.04 23 30 25 0.41 0.15 0.33
 Minor Increase Over Minimal Risk 42 29 29 40 30 44
 Moderate Risk 34 24 40 36 38 28
 High Risk 4 1 1 1 2 3
New Drug RCT % % % p-value p-value p-value % % % p-value p-value p-value
 Minimal Risk or Less 28 26 18 0.08 0.63 0.26 30 32 32 0.54 0.04 0.26
 Minor Increase Over Minimal Risk 38 41 51 41 35 50
 Moderate Risk 32 31 29 29 34 19
 High Risk 3 1 1 0 0 0
Vaccine % % % p-value p-value p-value % % % p-value p-value p-value
 Minimal Risk or Less 3 1 0 0.26 0.25 0.84 2 5 5 0.68 0.82 0.86
 Minor Increase Over Minimal Risk 9 17 9 18 16 17
 Moderate Risk 58 63 62 54 51 52
 High Risk 31 19 29 25 29 25
Gene Transfer % % % p-value p-value p-value % % % p-value p-value p-value
 Minimal Risk or Less 3 1 0 0.15 0.57 0.52 2 1 3 0.59 0.19 0.57
 Minor Increase Over Minimal Risk 8 1 1 9 12 7
 Moderate Risk 32 39 40 37 31 39
 High Risk 58 58 59 52 56 51