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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Mar;23(3):392–401. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0744

Table 2.

Change in willingness to donate and reasons or concerns about donation among Chinese American participants in a randomized controlled trial

Intervention %
(n = 193)
Control % (n = 202)
Delta delta:
intervention
versus control
(n = 395)
Pre Post Delta P Pre Post Delta P P
If healthy, would donate:
 Saliva 73 85 12 <0.001 74 81 6 0.008 5 0.05
 Urine 62 77 15 <0.001 68 73 5 0.12 10 0.03
 Blood (2 vials) 40 49 9 0.07 39 42 2 0.18 6 0.22
 Toenails 43 56 13 <0.001 49 44 −4 0.10 18 <0.001
 Hair 55 67 12 <0.001 58 58 0 0.88 13 <0.001
If have cancer, would donate:
 Saliva 71 85 15 <0.001 73 81 8 0.005 7 0.03
 Urine 63 79 17 <0.001 72 73 1 0.64 16 <0.001
 Blood (2 vials) 51 54 3 0.45 51 50 −1 0.71 4 0.40
 Toenails 44 59 15 <0.001 53 49 −5 <0.001 20 <0.001
 Hair 52 72 20 <0.001 64 61 −3 0.04 23 <0.001
If have cancer, donate
 unused tissue
76 86 10 <0.001 82 82 0 0.77 10 <0.001
Reasons for willingness to donate
 Future generations will
  benefit
74 88 15 <0.001 77 81 4 0.10 10 0.002
 A person I know would
  benefit
48 56 8 0.001 42 47 5 0.29 3 0.62
 I could be notified about
  abnormal results
26 27 1 0.74 34 25 −9 0.001 10 0.01
 Samples would already be
  collected as part of my
  medical care
18 22 4 0.30 23 20 −3 0.61 8 0.33
Concerns about donating for cancer research
 Losing my privacy 35 34 −1 0.91 34 39 4 0.06 −5 0.36

Being asked to donate
  more later
25 25 0 1 25 23 −2 0.62 2 0.77
 Not knowing how my
  donation will be used
25 21 −4 0.58 33 31 −2 0.69 −2 0.84
 Not getting medical
  information about my
  donation
16 11 −5 0.02 18 17 0 0.90 −4 0.35
 Upsetting the balance of
  “qi” in my body
10 12 2 0.59 9 8 −1 0.75 3 0.53
 Not maintaining the entire
  body, which our parents
  and ancestors gave to us
7 6 −1 0.77 12 11 0 0.80 0 0.99

NOTE: Bold P values reflect a statistical significance of P < 0.05.