Outpatients' knowledge about and attitude towards clinical research and randomized clinical trials. The INFO Trial Group (original) (raw)

Danish medical bulletin, 1998

Abstract

To investigate the knowledge about randomized clinical trials and the attitude towards clinical research among Danish outpatients and to examine the relationships between outpatient demographic variables and knowledge and attitude. Outpatients (n = 415) were recruited from four departments at a university hospital in Copenhagen. The participants answered an 18 item multiple choice test evaluating knowledge about randomized clinical trials and a 32 item Likert format questionnaire evaluating attitudes towards clinical research in general and randomized clinical trials. Assessment of scales for knowledge and attitudes was performed using Rasch analysis and Cronbach's alpha. Associations between demographic variables, knowledge score and attitude score were examined using analysis of variance. Mean age for all outpatients was 46 years (range 18-88 years); 251 (60%) were females. A total of 27 outpatients (7%) had previously participated in a randomized clinical trial. Mean knowledg...

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