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Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks

11.02.22 | PLOS

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Participants in volunteer and control groups were surveyed on their engagement with a range of altruistic behaviors, including blood donation, significant charitable donations and organ/marrow donor status.
Volunteers were significantly more likely than controls to have participated in all but one of the altruistic behaviors. Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823

Article Title: Characterizing altruistic motivation in potential volunteers for SARS-CoV-2 challenge trials

Author Countries: USA, UK

Funding: This study was supported by 1Day Sooner in the form of a grant as part of the Open Philanthropy Project, and in the form of salaries for authors SMR, VS, & JM. This study was also supported by 1Day Sooner in the form of additional financial support for MP. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. This study was also supported by National Science Foundation in the form of grants for MM, NE (2039320) and AAM (1729406). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0275823

Characterizing altruistic motivation in potential volunteers for SARS-CoV-2 challenge trials

2-Nov-2022

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: SMR and VS were employees of 1Day Sooner at the time of this study. JM is a current employee of 1Day Sooner. NE and AAM are on the Board of Advisors for 1Day Sooner. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.

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Participants in the volunteer group were asked to indicate their top three motivations for participating in a COVID-19 challenge trial from a list of ten options.
Selections were not ranked, and total percentages add to 300% because each participant selected 3 options. The two most commonly selected options were “I wanted to help others and potentially save lives” (95.9%) and “I wanted to contribute to the progress of medicine” (79.2%). Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Keywords

Covid 19 Finance Health and Medicine Human Health Money Motivation Psychological Science Public Health Sars Cov 2 Social Research Social Sciences

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0275823
Article Publication Date
2022-11-02
Article Title
Characterizing altruistic motivation in potential volunteers for SARS-CoV-2 challenge trials
COI Statement
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: SMR and VS were employees of 1Day Sooner at the time of this study. JM is a current employee of 1Day Sooner. NE and AAM are on the Board of Advisors for 1Day Sooner. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, November 2). Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/80E5R2Q8/volunteers-in-covid-19-human-challenge-trials-are-genuinely-altruistic-not-desperate-for-money-or-lacking-understanding-of-the-risks.html
MLA:
"Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks." Brightsurf News, Nov. 2 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/80E5R2Q8/volunteers-in-covid-19-human-challenge-trials-are-genuinely-altruistic-not-desperate-for-money-or-lacking-understanding-of-the-risks.html.