Table 3 Motivation, satisfaction and participation outlook of healthy volunteers (N = 210)
Overall | Gender (%) | Age (%) | CIC computer file (%) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(%) N = 210 | Men n = 68 | Women n = 135 | p | ≤30 n = 70 | 31 to 45 n = 51 | 46 to 60 n = 81 | p‡ | Unregistered n = 82 | Registered n = 128 | p | |
Motivation (several answers possible) | |||||||||||
Supporting research | 87.6 | 79.4 | 91.1 | 0.02 | 84.3 | 80.4 | 93.8 | 0.09 | 81.7 | 91.4 | 0.04 |
Learning about emergency first-aid | 58.1 | 58.8 | 57.0 | 0.81 | 55.7 | 66.7 | 53.1 | 0.64 | 63.4 | 54.7 | 0.21 |
Updating knowledge of emergency first-aid | 51.9 | 54.4 | 50.4 | 0.59 | 54.3 | 37.3 | 58.0 | 0.64 | 45.1 | 56.3 | 0.12 |
Interest in medical research results | 35.2 | 35.3 | 35.6 | 0.97 | 25.7 | 27.5 | 49.4 | 0.003 | 31.7 | 37.5 | 0.39 |
Curiosity | 32.9 | 29.4 | 34.1 | 0.50 | 44.3 | 27.5 | 25.9 | 0.01 | 30.5 | 34.4 | 0.56 |
Protocol without risk | 11.4 | 5.9 | 14.8 | 0.06 | 11.4 | 9.8 | 13.6 | 0.76 | 14.6 | 9.4 | 0.24 |
Other* | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.2 | - | 0.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 | - | 2.4 | 2.3 | - |
Satisfaction | |||||||||||
Overall welcome (overall score > 15) | 49.0 | 40.9 | 53.4 | 0.10 | 36.2 | 40.8 | 65.0 | 0.001 | 44.3 | 52.0 | 0.28 |
Protocol management (overall score > 19) | 40.0 | 29.4 | 45.5 | 0.03 | 25.7 | 34.7 | 55.0 | <0.001 | 35.4 | 43.0 | 0.29 |
Participation outlook | |||||||||||
Participation in a new research study | 98.5 | 98.5 | 98.5 | 0.99 | 97.1 | 100.0 | 98.8 | 0.66 | 96.2 | 100.0 | 0.03 |
Recommendations for relatives to participate | 99.0 | 100.0 | 98.5 | 0.31 | 98.6 | 98.0 | 100.0 | 0.62 | 100.0 | 98.4 | 0.26 |