Table 2.
Willingness for bio-specimen donation among building bridges program participants by Cultural Group, Fort Worth, Texas, August 2017–November 2018 (N = 171)
| Characteristic | Total | Myanmara | Central African Regionb | Somalia | Nepalc | Arabic speaking Countriesd | Otherse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Previously asked to donate? | 171 (100) | 89 (52) | 36 (21) | 22 (13) | 15 (9) | 7 (4) | 2 (1) |
| Yes | 48 (28) | 35 (39) | 5 (14) | 0 (0) | 7 (47) | 1 (14) | 0 (0) |
| No/I don’t know | 123 (72) | 54 (61) | 31 (86) | 22 (100) | 8 (53) | 6 (86) | 2 (100) |
| If previously asked to donate, ever agreed to donate? n (%) | 47 (98) | ||||||
| Yes | 46 (98) | 34 (97) | 5 (100) | 0 (0) | 6 (100) | 1 (100) | 0 (0) |
| No/I don’t know | 1 (2) | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Willing to donate biological specimen in future? | 168* (98) | ||||||
| Yes | 130 (77) | 62 (70) | 34 (94) | 11 (55) | 15 (100) | 6 (86) | 2 (100) |
| No/Don’t know | 38 (23) | 26 (30) | 2 (6) | 9 (45) | 0 (0) | 1 (14) | 0 (0) |
| Wald χ2 p-value | 0.02** | – | 0.02** | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.81 | 0.68 |
| Odds Ratio (95% CI) | – | 5.71 (1.38, 23.75) | 0.38 (0.13, 1.09) | 13.65 (0.58, 322.91) | 1.30 (0.16, 10.53) | 2.23 (0.05, 95.21) |
CI Confidence interval
aIncludes participants from both Myanmar (n = 86) and Thailand (n = 3)
bIncludes participants from: Congo (n = 26), Rwanda (n = 7), Burundi (n = 2), and Kenya (n = 1, who reported Swahili as native language)
cIncludes participants from both Nepal (n = 11) and Bhutan (n = 4)
dIncludes participants from Arabic speaking countries: Sudan (n = 7)
eIncludes participants from: Chad (n = 1) and Eritrea (n = 1)
*Owing to missing data, numbers may not total to 171
**P < 0.05