Accessing health services through the back door: a qualitative interview study investigating reasons why people participate in health research in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although there is extensive information about why people participate in clinical trials, studies are largely based on quantitative evidence and typically focus on single conditions. Over the last decade investigations into why people volunteer for health research have become increasingly prominent across diverse research settings, offering variable based explanations of participation patterns driven primarily by recruitment concerns. Therapeutic misconception and altruism have emerged as predominant themes in this literature on motivations to participate in health research. This paper contributes to more recent qualitative approaches to understanding how and why people come to participate in various types of health research. We focus on the experience of participating an

SUBMITTER: Townsend A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3853104 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature