The involvement of African Americans in research has long been expressed as a concern by the scientific community.While efforts\r\nhave been undertaken to identify factors inhibiting the participation of African Americans in health-related research, few efforts\r\nhave been undertaken to have highlight factors associated with their engagement of health-related research. An exploratory study\r\nof factors presumed to be associated with participation in health-related research was conducted among a nonprobability sample\r\nof African Americans (?? = 212) from a large urban community in the Midwest. The study was guided by a framework that\r\nhypothesized the influence of knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions about genetics and the involvement of providers in decisionmaking\r\non willingness to participate in health-related genetic research.Theresults revealed that knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions\r\nabout genetics and the involvement of providers were associated with willingness to engage in health-related genetic research\r\n(?? < .05). The most interesting, however, was that 88.7% of the participants who had not previously been involved in a healthrelated\r\nstudy who expressed a willingness to participate reported that they ââ?¬Å?had never been asked.ââ?¬Â Study findings suggest the need\r\nfor research that further examines factors associated with the involvement of African Americans in health-related genetic research.
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