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Table 3 The associations between socio-demographic, health-related and biobanking-related variables and willingness to donate

From: Assessment of knowledge about biobanking among healthcare students and their willingness to donate biospecimens

 

Willingness to donate

p-value*

Variables

Yes

No

 
 

N

%

N

%

 

Total

517

89

66

11

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Socio-demographic & health-related

Gender

 Male

199

87

30

13

0.281

 Female

317

90

36

10

 

Marital Status

 Married

57

81

13

19

0.037

 Non-married

459

90

52

10

 

Faculty

 Medicine

193

85

35

15

<0.001

 Dentistry

107

92

9

8

 

 Medical technology

157

96

7

4

 

 Pharmacology

60

80

15

20

 

GPA

 A

167

91

16

9

0.394

 B

256

88

34

12

 

 C/D

67

86

11

14

 

General Health

 Excellent

164

91

16

9

<0.001

 Very good

200

91

20

9

 

 Good

139

87

21

13

 

 Fair/Poor

12

60

8

40

 

History of Chronic disease

 No

470

89

58

11

0.554

 Yes

44

86

7

14

 

Family history of inherited disease

 No

330

89

39

11

0.604

 Yes

     

Previous hospitalization

 No

331

89

40

11

0.651

 Yes

183

88

25

12

 

Biobanking-related

Previous genetic testing

 No

493

89

59

11

0.096

 Yes

23

79

6

21

 

Previous blood testing

 No

45

88

6

12

0.887

 Yes

472

89

59

11

 

Previous tissue testing

 No

437

90

49

10

0.042

 Yes

76

83

16

17

 

Previous blood donation

 No

370

89

45

11

0.779

 Yes

144

88

19

12

 

Previous tissue donation

 No

506

90

59

10

<0.001

 Yes

8

62

5

39

 

Involvement in medical research

 No

281

88

38

12

0.495

 Yes

231

90

26

10

 

Biobanking knowledge score (mean ± SD)

3.17 ± 1.6

2.33 ± 1.6

<0.001

Biomedical research attitude score (mean ± SD)

38.1 ± 3.7

35.6 ± 3.8

<0.001

  1. *Chi-squared test was used except for biobanking knowledge and biomedical research attitude scores where a t-test was used. Correlations with p-value < 0.05 are considered statistically significant (Bold font)