Tuskegee Legacy Project
The main goal of the Tuskegee Legacy Project was to address and understand if African Americans and other minorities would be willing to participate in future bio medical research studies. The Project also compared the willingness of African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites to participate in experiments. The questions were based around the likelihood of participation scale and the guinea pig factor scale. The project consisted of a questionnaire which was administered by the Tuskegee Legacy Project to 1,133 African Americans, Hispanics, and non-Hispanic whites above the age of 18. The test was administered to four cities: Birmingham/Jefferson County, Alabama; Tuskegee/Macon County, Alabama; Hartford/Hartford County, Connecticut; and San Antonio/Bexar County, Texas. The experiment took place from March 1999 to November 2000 and the study was approved by the University of Connecticut Health Center Institutional Review Board (National Center for Biotechnology Information).
Based off of the results, Whites tended to have less education about the experiments than the African Americans. According to the LOP Scale and the Guinea Pig Scale, there was no big difference between African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites on their willingness to participate in medical researchers. However, scientists believe if the people tested would have had more knowledge about the experiment, the results would have been different (National Center for Biotechnology Information).
Based off of the results, Whites tended to have less education about the experiments than the African Americans. According to the LOP Scale and the Guinea Pig Scale, there was no big difference between African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites on their willingness to participate in medical researchers. However, scientists believe if the people tested would have had more knowledge about the experiment, the results would have been different (National Center for Biotechnology Information).