Pilot study: does the white coat influence research participation?

In health care, the white coat symbolizes professionalism, trustworthiness, and competence; it also represents power. This suggests that the wearing of a white coat could influence the decisions of potential subjects who are asked to participate in clinic-based research. Comments © The Hastings Center. Reprinted by permission. This article originally appeared in IRB: Ethics and Human Research, Volume 24, Issue 4, July 2002, pages 6-8. Publisher URL: http://www.thehastingscenter.org/publications/irb/irb.asp This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/bioethics_papers/8 Pilot Study: Does the White Coat Influence Research Participation? Jon F. Merz; Timothy R. Rebbeck; Pamela Sankar; Emma A. Meagher IRB: Ethics and Human Research, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Jul. Aug., 2002), pp. 6-8. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0193-7758%28200207%2F08%2924%3A4%3C6%3APSDTWC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F IRB: Ethics and Human Research is currently published by The Hastings Center. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/hastings.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. http://www.jstor.org Mon Mar 12 09:37:33 2007