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. 2021 Nov 22;30(3):367–377. doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-00997-5

Table 4.

A comparison of means obtained for respondents’ motives for participating in and potential withdrawing from a Dutch population-based biobank.

Motives
Participation Withdrawal
Societal benefits Individual benefits Societal harm Individual harm
p (Levene’s F), BF / M (SD) p (Levene’s F), BF / M (SD) p (Levene’s F), BF / M (SD) p (Levene’s F), BF / M (SD)
Age 0.19 (1.50), n.a. 0.25 (1.33), n.a. <0.01 (3.94), n.a. 0.16 (1.60), n.a.
<30 years 4.03 (0.48) 2.90 (0.79) 3.52 (0.68) 3.49 (0.59)
31–40 years 3.97 (0.59) 2.84 (0.80) 3.62 (0.72) 3.49 (0.62)
41–50 years 4.03 (0.53) 2.84 (0.85) 3.77 (0.65) 3.55 (0.58)
51–60 years 4.08 (0.50) 2.84 (0.84) 3.85 (0.72) 3.49 (0.65)
>60 years 4.09 (0.47) 3.02 (0.75) 3.88 (0.75) 3.47 (0.66)
Gender 0.97 (0.00), 0.02 <0.01 (6.86), 0.48 <0.01 (19.16), 220.37 <0.01 (26.88), 10 088.64
Male 4.06 (0.51) 2.97 (0.80) 3.88 (0.90) 3.43 (0.67)
Female 4.06 (0.49) 2.88 (0.80) 4.03 (0.77) 3.56 (0.60)
Marital status 0.11 (2.50), 0.06 0.35 (0.88), 0.02 0.35 (0.86), 0.02 0.17 (1.91), 0.04
Registered partner 4.07 (0.50) 2.93 (0.80) 3.95 (0.83) 3.50 (0.63)
No registered partner 4.03 (0.51) 2.89 (0.81) 3.91 (0.88) 3.46 (0.66)
Educational level 0.20 (1.63), 0.00 <0.01 (44.54), 3.97E+15 0.05 (3.11), 0.01 <0.01 (11.59), 39.92>
High 4.08 (0.53) 2.75 (0.78) 3.99 (0.82) 3.56 (0.59)
Moderate 4.05 (0.47) 2.98 (0.77) 3.91 (0.84) 3.46 (0.66)
Low 4.04 (0.50) 3.12 (0.81) 3.90 (0.89) 3.41 (0.68)
Paid job <0.01 (9.81), 2.08 <0.01 (19.83), 303.72 <0.01 (7.03), 0.53 0.33 (0.94), 0.03
Yes 4.03 (0.52) 2.86 (0.81) 3.91 (0.84) 3.50 (0.60)
No 4.10 (0.48) 3.00 (0.78) 3.99 (0.84) 3.48 (0.66)
Religious 0.09 (2.89), 0.07 0.24 (1.37), 0.03 0.15 (2.07), 0.04 0.02 (5.29), 0.22
Yes 4.04 (0.47) 2.94 (0.80) 3.91 (0.86) 3.45 (0.66)
No 4.07 (0.51) 2.91 (0.80) 3.96 (0.83) 3.51 (0.63)
Area of residence 0.87 (0.03), 0.02 0.53 (0.40), 0.02 0.13 (2.36), 0.05 0.22 (1.50), 0.03
Rural 4.06 (0.49) 2.93 (0.79) 3.96 (0.83) 3.50 (0.63)
Urban 4.06 (0.52) 2.90 (0.80) 3.90 (0.87) 3.46 (0.66)
Blood donor 0.28 (1.17), 0.03 0.52 (0.41), 0.01 0.84 (0.04), 0.02 <0.01 (6.36), 0.38
Yes 4.03 (0.56) 2.95 (0.82) 3.94 (0.79) 3.58 (0.66)
No 4.06 (0.49) 2.92 (0.80) 3.95 (0.85) 3.48 (0.64)
Organ donor <0.01 (11.07), 3.91 0.04 (4.20), 0.02 0.26 (1.28), 0.03 0.06 (3.64), 0.04
Yes 4.09 (0.51) 2.89 (0.80) 3.96 (0.83) 3.47 (0.64)
No 4.03 (0.49) 2.96 (0.80) 3.92 (0.86) 3.52 (0.63)

The values in the table are either probability values (p) with Levene’s test F-statistic (Levene’s F) and Bayes Factor (BF) or means (M) with Standard deviations (SD).

Bold = significant with p < 0.01.