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Published in final edited form as: AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2019 Jun 10;10(3):190–200. doi: 10.1080/23294515.2019.1618417

Table 4.

Relationship between communication and trust

	I trust researcher knows what is best for me			Distrust Index
	Strongly disagree to Neither agree nor disagree (n = 29) Mean (SD)	Agree or Strongly agree (n = 76) Mean (SD)	t statistics, p value	Pearson r, p value
MD information exchange	4.05 (0.72)	4.42 (0.55)	−2.86, p = 0.005	−0.098, p = 0.317
MD relational communication	4.18 (0.65)	4.65 (0.45)	−4.17, p < 0.001	0.006, p = 0.950
MD total communication	4.10 (0.64)	4.51 (0.47)	−3.59, p = 0.001	−0.063, p = 0.517
RN information exchange	4.17 (0.69)	4.45 (0.57)	−2.09, p = 0.039	−0.092, p = 0.349
RN relational communication	4.21 (0.91)	4.60 (0.54)	−2.64, p = 0.010	−0.105, p = 0.289
RN total communication	4.18 (0.73)	4.51 (0.53)	−2.58, p = 0.011	−0.092, p = 0.345
Distrust Index	0.66 (0.61)	0.67 (0.99)	−0.58, p = 0.954

Note: Significant results are bolded.