Use of a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Assess Knowledge Attitudes and Beliefs on Biospecimen Research Among Pacific Islanders

摘要

ObjectivesThe purpose of this article is to describe a community-based participatory research pilot project conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that Pacific Islanders (PIs) hold toward biospecimen collection, use, and banking, all of which will help drive higher PI participation rates in both medical and behavioral research studies.