Table 2.

Awareness of the U.S. Public Health Syphilis Study at Tuskegee SST) and accuracy of knowledge by racial/ethnic background

Awareness of TSE	African American (n = 510)	Latino (n = 253)
Has never heard of Tuskegee Study:
Male	63.3%	94.2%
Female	78.3%	93.0%
Total sample	71.9%	93.6%
Among those who had heard of study:
Describes deliberate infection of research subjects by scientists	9.9%	0.3%
Describes study whose purpose was to harm Blacks	1.5%	0.0%
Describes an experimental study	1.4%	0.0%
Describes a natural history study	3.8%	0.0%
Reports source of information about study	2.8%	2.4%
Irrelevant response	2.2%	1.1%
Cannot remember any details about it	6..5%	2.7%

Note. Among African Americans, 143 of 510 respondents had heard of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; among Latinos, 16 of 253.