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Factors affecting people's attitude toward participation in medical research: a systematic review
Hao Jin1, Min Cui2, Junwei Liu2
1The Second Department of General Surgery, Zhuhai People's Hospital (Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated with Jinan University), Zhuhai, China.
Abstract:
Objective: Human participants play an important role in medical care advances. Recruiting enough participants is perhaps the most significant procedure that determines the success of medical research, and high participation rate brings about many benefits. Therefore, acquiring enough participants is important for medical researchers. To understand how to improve participation rate, we need to clarify factors affecting the public's attitude toward medical research. Through this review, we aim to examine which factors affect the attitude of human participants toward medical research.Methods: The relevant data were searched by using the keywords "Public," "Participants," "Medical" and "Research" in PubMed (MEDLINE), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Web of Science, Science Direct, CINAHL Plus, EMBASE, and China Knowledge Resource Integrated databases. A manual search was done to acquire peer-reviewed articles and reports about participation in medical research.Results: Sixty-three studies were identified for inclusion after full text screening. The included studies were of variable quality. Some factors affecting people's attitude toward participating in medical research have been identified and discussed in our review.Conclusion: This review demonstrated that willingness of participants to take part in medical research was influenced by a variety of factors. These factors may be used to predict the public's willingness to take part in medical research and may potentially be used in developing strategies aimed at improving participation rate.
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