Table 2:

Study participants’ expressed satisfaction with informed consent simulation

Simulated Genetics Protocol	Depression		Diabetes		P value
	N=47		N=30
Survey Item	mean	sd	mean	sd
Sufficiency of Information Provided
How much information was provided to make decision	5.91	1.40	5.78	1.54	0.7
How well were questions about study answered	7.80	1.61	8.25	1.27	0.18
Readiness to make a decision
How much time to think about decision to participate	7.30	2.29	8.16	1.61	0.05
How ready to make decision about participation after reading consent form	7.34	1.82	8.03	1.58	0.08
Interaction during Consent
How much pressure felt to agree to participate	1.98	1.74	1.69	1.71	0.46
How comfortable with process of going over consent form	8.00	1.44	8.28	1.30	0.37
Interaction with researcher influenced likelihood of participation	7.06	1.69	7.22	1.52	0.67

A significance level of 0.05 was used