Public awareness, attitudes, and motivation toward biobanks: a survey of China

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 8 Influence of sociodemographic variables on public perceptions of biobanks

	Gender	Age	Occupation	Highest education	Minority	Religious belief	Income level	Residence
Heard about biobanks	0.134	0.124	0.099	0.135	0.331	0.396	0.225	0.856
Specific uses of biobanks	0.436	< 0.001*	0.002*	0.302	0.453	0.331	0.165	0.51
Benefit-to-risk ratio of biobanks	0.556	0.252	0.324	0.056	0.146	0.01*	0.016*	0.019*
Importance of biobanks	0.92	0.002*	0.178	0.108	0.114	0.043*	0.061	0.008*
Overall willingness to donate	0.807	0.003*	0.245	0.014*	0.079	0.131	0.266	0.542
Saliva or urine	0.494	0.662	0.004*	0.124	0.237	0.441	0.387	0.809
Blood	0.522	0.53	0.002*	0.171	0.199	0.28	0.323	0.426
Genetic samples	0.014*	0.155	0.053	0.447	0.242	0.417	0.247	0.377
Motivation	0.268	0.265	0.056	0.345	0.787	0.482	0.612	0.062

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