Distrust, Race, and Research

Distrust, race, and research.

BACKGROUND Investigators have voiced concerns that distrust of research and the medical community impedes successful recruitment of African Americans into clinical research. OBJECTIVES To examine possible differences in distrust by race and to determine to what extent other sociodemographic factors explain any racial differences in distrust. METHODS We analyzed data from 527 African America...

Racial differences in parents' distrust of medicine and research.

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the attitudes and trust that African American and white parents have toward their children participating in research. DESIGN Self-administered, cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of parents. SETTING Primary Care Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh from August 2004 through April 2005. PARTICIPANTS One hundred ninety parents (140 African A...

Trust, Distrust, and Power

Distrust and Political Turnover∗

We present findings that document one way in which a society’s culture can affect political outcomes. Examining an annual panel of democratic countries over six decades, we show that severe economic downturns are more likely to cause political turnover in countries that have lower levels of generalized trust. We find no such relationship in non-democratic countries or on irregular leader turnov...

Race and ethnicity in medical research.

To the Editor—Racial and ethnic differences in health and disease are real. For example, in the field of neurology, intracranial stenoses are more common among the Chinese population, and multiple sclerosis is uncommon, when compared with whites from Europe and North America. Studying various subgroups is important to detect different patterns of disease and to obtain aetiological clues; race a...