The moral concerns of biobank donors: the effect of non-welfare interests on willingness to donate

Table 2 Logistic regression predicting willingness to donate using blanket consent (at baseline)^a,b

	AOR^c	SE	95 % CI	p-value
Age (in years)	1.00	0.00	(0.99, 1.01)	0.57
Female	1.16	0.16	(0.88, 1.52)	0.30
Race
White	1.00	--	--	--
Black/African American	0.46	0.11	(0.29, 0.73)	< 0.001
Other	1.01	0.28	(0.58, 1.73)	0.98
Hispanic	0.78	0.18	(0.50, 1.22)	0.27
Education^d	0.93	0.08	(0.79, 1.09)	0.38
Household Income (1–19)	1.01	0.02	(0.98, 1.05)	0.40
Abortion view
Always legal	1.00	--	--	--
Legal in most circumstances	1.15	0.25	(0.76, 1.76)	0.51
Legal in a few circumstances	1.09	0.23	(0.72, 1.63)	0.69
Always illegal	0.90	0.23	(0.55, 1.47)	0.66
Don’t know	0.96	0.30	(0.52, 1.77)	0.89
Religious affiliation
Catholic	1.00	--	--	--
Non-Catholic Christian	0.98	0.18	(0.69, 1.41)	0.93
Non-Christian Religions	0.92	0.33	(0.46, 1.84)	0.81
Unaffiliated	1.06	0.24	(0.68, 1.64)	0.80
Do not Know/Refused	0.59	0.23	(0.27, 1.28)	0.18
Political^e	0.92	0.05	(0.83, 1.02)	0.10
Privacy^f	0.68	0.04	(0.60, 0.77)	< 0.001
RAQ^g	1.13	0.01	(1.10, 1.16)	< 0.001

N = 1,593
^aWe define blanket consent as a model in which the donor gives permission for unspecified and unknown uses of the specimen at the time of donation. We chose to test a model portraying “blanket consent” with “committee oversight” as a way of focusing on the ethical issue of consenting to future unknown uses of biospecimens – the central issue in the conversation about informed consent for biobanking
^bAdjusted for post-stratification weights
^cAOR (Adjusted Odds Ratio) greater than 1 means the participant characteristic is positively associated with willingness to give blanket consent, and less than 1 means the characteristic is negatively associated with willingness to give blanket consent
^dRange is 1 to 4 (higher is more education)
^eRange is 1 to 7 (higher is more conservative)
^fRange is 1 to 5 (higher is more worried)
^gRAQ is the 11 item Research Attitudes Questionnaire, assessing attitudes toward medical research. Range is 11–66 (a higher score corresponds to more positive attitudes)

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