Table 3.
The associations between socio-demographic, health-related and biobanking-related variables and willingness to donate
| Willingness to donate | p-value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Yes | No | |||
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Total | 517 | 89 | 66 | 11 | --- |
| 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 | ||
*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)