The Impact of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Responses to Precision Medicine Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Precision medicine research depends upon recruiting large and diverse participant cohorts to provide genetic, environmental, and lifestyle data. How prospective participants react to information about this research, including depictions of uncertainty, is not well understood.

Purpose

The current study examined public responses to precision medicine research, focusing on reactions toward (a) uncertainty about the scientific impact of sharing data for research, and (b) uncertainty about the privacy, security, or intended uses of participant data.

Methods

U.S. adults (N = 674; 51.9% male; 50% non-Hispanic white; Mage = 42.23) participated in an online experimental survey. Participants read a manipulated news article about precision medicine research that conve

SUBMITTER: Ratcliff CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8557361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature