Table 3.

Associations between race and participant responses to questions on trust and discrimination

General Questions on Trust/Discrimination	n	% African American	% White	p value
Lose insurance coverage by taking part in study
Agree	153	28	19	0.014
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	608	72	81
Lose privacy when giving a sample for research
Agree	179	29	22	0.067
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	585	71	18
Shouldn’t do research until we know how info used
Agree	368	67	44	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	391	33	56
Government can’t be trusted to regulate use of genetic info
Agree	287	49	35	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	468	51	65
Trust medical researchers
Agree	707	87	94	0.007
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	56	13	6
Research participants may be deceived by researchers
Agree	226	44	27	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	533	56	73
Researchers want to know more than they need to know
Agree	145	36	15	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	619	64	18
Researchers do harmful experiments w/o pt’s knowledge
Agree	194	40	22	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	569	60	78
Medical researchers use minorities as guinea pigs
Agree	77	27	6	<0.001
Do Not Agree/Don’t Know	684	73	94