Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Wellcome Trust Monitor is a unique survey of UK adults' (and in some waves, young people's) views around science and biomedical research. The findings are representative of the UK population and provide fresh and significant insights to inform science communication practice and how research priorities might be shaped, building a better understanding of the social context of biomedical research. The survey is repeated every three years and a large proportion of the questions recur in each wave. The aim of this tracking survey is to build a high-quality evidence base that explores trends and variations across time on both general scientific and medical themes and specific societal issues. This robust study also seeks to develop a more systematic approach to describing and understanding current interest in, attitudes towards and knowledge of science and biomedical research. There is flexibility within each wave to include a number of additional questions to explore new and topical areas of interest. Further information is available from the Wellcome Trust Monitor webpage.
The Wellcome Trust Monitor Waves 1-3 Combined Adults Data, 2009-2015 contains adult data from the Waves 1, 2 and 3 of the Wellcome Trust Monitor. The combined dataset excludes young people who were interviewed in Waves 1 and 2 and contains only questions that were asked in more than one Wave. The individual Wave data files are available separately from the UK Data Archive from: SN 6889 for Wave 1, SN 7315 for Wave 2 and SN 7927 for Wave 3.
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The Wellcome Trust Monitor Waves 1-3 Combined Adults Data includes questions on the following topics:awareness of and interest in medical researchmedical research information seekingpreferred sources for medical research information trust in sources of information on medical research and reasons for trust/distrustexperiences of coming across medical researchexpectations for what medical research will achieve in the futurescientific literacytesting knowledge about best way to test the effectiveness of a drug involvement in medical research willingness to share medical records for researchperceived understanding of GMawareness of genetic testingareas of medical research interestvisits to science museums and other informal science activitiesviews about creation vs evolutionfrequency of viewing TV, internet, podcastsuse of alternative medicine
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
