Although federal protective requirements for human subjects in research exist, it is unknown how knowledgeable individual investigators are about these requirements. The present study was undertaken to determine how much investigators know about legal requirements and what their attitudes are about those. Analysis showed that, although respondents were aware of general requirements, they were not knowledgeable about specific ones. This suggests that programs designed to inform people of research requirements should focus upon specific ones.
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