Table 1. Summary of the characteristics of the study participants.

	Willingness to participate in medical research (Total = 1,389)
	Yes = 165 (11.9%)		No = 1,224 (88.1%)
Variables	Number	%	Number	%	P-value
Age (years)
30 or below	51	30.91	365	29.82	0.79
31–40	30	18.18	259	21.16
41–50	39	23.64	261	21.32
51 or above	45	27.27	339	27.70
Sex
Women	63	38.18	618	50.49	<.01
Men	102	61.82	606	49.51
Education level
Junior high school or below	49	29.70	294	24.02	0.09
Senior high school or junior college	73	44.24	516	42.16
College or above	43	26.06	414	33.82
Employment status
Non-employee	59	35.76	382	31.21	0.35
Part-time job	10	6.06	104	8.50
Full-time job	96	58.18	738	60.29
Personal income
NT$20,000 or below	72	43.64	509	41.58	0.87
NT$20,001-NT$50,000	67	40.61	510	41.67
≥NT$50,000	26	15.76	205	16.75
Marital status
Other	74	44.85	501	40.93	0.34
Married or living with a significant other	91	55.15	723	59.07
Religion
No religion	42	25.45	251	20.51	0.53
Folklore religion	48	29.09	414	33.82
Buddhist/Taoist	62	37.58	464	37.91
Catholic/Christian	9	5.45	74	6.05
Other	4	2.42	21	1.72
Place of residence
Eastern Taiwan and outlying islands	8	4.85	42	3.43	0.46
Southern Taiwan	55	33.33	353	28.84
Central Taiwan	38	23.03	302	24.67
Northern Taiwan	64	38.79	527	43.06
Self-reported health status
Good	135	81.82	1,055	86.19	0.13
Bad	30	18.18	169	13.81
Whether the interviewees or their household family members had a biomedicine-related degree
No	152	92.12	1,158	94.61	0.20
Yes	13	7.88	66	5.39