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SUBMITTER: Dhalla S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3290734 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dhalla Shayesta S Poole Gary G Singer Joel J Patrick David M DM Kerr Thomas T
Psychology, health & medicine 20120117 2
There are gaps in our knowledge of the role cognitive factors play in determining people's willingness to participate (WTP) in therapeutic HIV vaccine trials. Using a cross-sectional study of HIV-positive injection drug users (IDU), we determined the role of three cognitive factors: HIV treatment optimism, self-efficacy beliefs, and knowledge of vaccine trial concepts in relation to WTP in a hypothetical phase 3 therapeutic HIV vaccine trial. WTP was 54%. Participants tended to be low in HIV tre ...[more]