Prioritizing Approaches to Engage Community Members and Build Trust in Biobanks: A Survey of Attitudes and Opinions of Adults within Outpatient Practices at the University of Maryland

Background: Achieving high participation of communities representative of all sub-populations is needed in order to ensure broad applicability of biobank study findings. This study aimed to understand potentially mutable attitudes and opinions commonly correlated with biobank participation in order...

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Main Authors: Casey Lynnette Overby, Kristin A. Maloney, Tameka DeShawn Alestock, Justin Chavez, David Berman, Reem Maged Sharaf, Tom Fitzgerald, Eun-Young Kim, Kathleen Palmer, Alan R. Shuldiner, Braxton D. Mitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Journal of Personalized Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/5/3/264