Abstract
There is a pressing need to find an efficacious HIV vaccine and a concomitant need for the recruitment of participants in efficacy trials. These efforts are hampered, however, by a gap between what respondents say they will do regarding research participation, and whether they actually enroll. The current paper examines the size of this gap and proposes psychological reasons for it. Some reasons include the temporal stability of the intention, the time taken to consider its ramifications and plans to deal with them, and the social forces that affect the intention. From this analysis, recommendations are offered to improve recruitment efforts and the predictive power of expressions of willingness to participate.
Keywords: HIV vaccine trials, psychological factors, willingness to participate, WTP, behavior, intention, implementation, enrollment, recruitment, single-act.
Current HIV Research
Title:Using Psychological Principles to Narrow the Intention-Behavior Gap and Increase Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials
Volume: 10 Issue: 6
Author(s): Gary Poole
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Keywords: HIV vaccine trials, psychological factors, willingness to participate, WTP, behavior, intention, implementation, enrollment, recruitment, single-act.
Abstract: There is a pressing need to find an efficacious HIV vaccine and a concomitant need for the recruitment of participants in efficacy trials. These efforts are hampered, however, by a gap between what respondents say they will do regarding research participation, and whether they actually enroll. The current paper examines the size of this gap and proposes psychological reasons for it. Some reasons include the temporal stability of the intention, the time taken to consider its ramifications and plans to deal with them, and the social forces that affect the intention. From this analysis, recommendations are offered to improve recruitment efforts and the predictive power of expressions of willingness to participate.
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Poole Gary, Using Psychological Principles to Narrow the Intention-Behavior Gap and Increase Participation in HIV Vaccine Trials, Current HIV Research 2012; 10 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016212802429811
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016212802429811 |
Print ISSN 1570-162X |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1873-4251 |

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