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Table 7 Types of research willing or unwilling to join.

From: Understanding of research: a Sri Lankan perspective

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Types of research willing to join

Research that involves donating tissue samples from body including blood (35.8%)

Health research (15%), questionnaire research (11%)

Research that benefits society 11%)

Do not wish to segregate research or not particular about the type of research (18.9%)

'Those that answer the problems faced in life'

'Research that is of benefit to the country and public

Education research'

'Research on rehabilitation of disabled children'

Types of research unwilling to join

Involving testing of a new drug or a treatment (36%)

Invasive/interventional research with instrumentation/research where there is introduction of something in to the body or taken internally (26%)

Done only for the benefit of the researcher/of no benefit to society or detrimental to the country (13%)

'If have to go to some other place'

'Participating in medical tests'

'Things that go by the name research but that are not research'

'Research about extremely personal issues'

'Research of an unfamiliar field'