ArticleBMC medical ethics2017
Assessment of knowledge about biobanking among healthcare students and their willingness to donate biospecimens.
Article in BMC medical ethics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Knowledge and Willingness for Organ Donation in the Middle Eastern Region: A Meta-analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2020Pooled it
- "Lord Knows What's Being Done with My Blood!": Black Women's Perceptions of Biospecimen Donation for Clinical Research in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Discrete choice experiment to determine preferences of blood donation in Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Public Awareness of and Attitudes Toward the Use of AI in Pathology Research and Practice: Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Assessment of biobank awareness among medical students in Iran.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- Biobanking as a research accelerator: the perspectives of medical students and interns at a saudi university.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- When Biobanks Meet Religion: Association Between Religiosity and Attitudes of Polish Medical Students Toward Biobanking of Human Biological Material for Research Purposes.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Genetic tests as the strongest motivator of cooperation between participants and biobanks-Findings from cross-sectional study.Frontiers in genetics · 2024Article
- Do biobanks need pharmacists? Support of pharmacy students to biobanking of human biological material for pharmaceutical research and development.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Awareness, Attitudes and Willingness to Donate Biological Samples to a Biobank: A Survey of a Representative Sample of Polish Citizens.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cluster Donation: How Future Healthcare Professionals Bound Certain Types of Tissues and Biomedical Research and How It Affects Their Willingness to Donate.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Public's awareness of biobanks and willingness to participate in biobanking: the moderating role of social value orientation.Journal of community genetics · 2023Article
- Establishing Biobanking in Medical Curricula-The Education Program "Precision Medicine International" (eduBRoTHER).Biopreservation and biobanking · 2023Article
- Assessment of willingness of Saudi public to participate in a dental biorepository for research purposes.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Public Attitude towards Biobanking: An Italian University Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Assessment of Biobanking Knowledge and Attitudes towards Biospecimen Donation among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gamete and embryo donation for research: what might shape the willingness to donate among gamete donors and recipients?Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2022Article
- Online Training as a Means to Improve the Understanding of Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Biobanking Research: Stakeholder Perspectives from South Africa.Biopreservation and biobanking · 2022Article
- Motives for withdrawal of participation in biobanking and participants' willingness to allow linkages of their data.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2022Article
- Associations between the Willingness to Donate Samples to Biobanks and Selected Psychological Variables.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundBiobanks and biospecimen collections are becoming a primary means of delivering personalized diagnostics and tailoring individualized therapeutics. This shift towards precision medicine (PM) requires interactions among a variety of stakeholders, including the public, patients, healthcare providers, government, and donors. Very few studies have investigated the role of healthcare students in biobanking and biospecimen donations. The main aims of this study were (1) to evaluate the knowledge of senior healthcare students about biobanks and (2) to assess the students' willingness to donate biospecimens and the factors influencing their attitudes.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted among senior healthcare students at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia. The data were obtained using a self-administered questionnaire in English. In addition to the respondents' biographical data section, the questionnaire assessed the respondents' general knowledge about biobanking, the factors influencing their willingness to donate biospecimens to biobanks and their general attitudes towards biomedical research.
resultsA total of 597 senior healthcare students were included in the study. The general knowledge score was 3.2 (±1.6) out of 7. Only approximately 44% and 27% of students were aware of the terms "Human Genome Project" (HGP) and "biobank," respectively. The majority of the students (89%) were willing to donate biospecimens to biobanks. Multiple factors were significantly associated with their willingness to donate, including their perceived general health (p < 0.001), past experience with both tissue testing (p < 0.04) and tissue donation (p < 0.001), biobanking knowledge score (p < 0.001) and biomedical research attitude score (p < 0.001). The main reasons for students' willingness to donate were advancement of medical research and societal benefits, whereas misuse of biospecimens and confidentiality breaches were the main reasons for a reluctance to donate.
conclusionDespite their strong willingness to donate biospecimens, students exhibited a notable lack of knowledge about biobanking and the HGP. To expedite the transition towards PM, it is highly recommended to enhance healthcare curricula by including more educational and awareness programmes to familiarize students with OMICs technologies in addition to the scope of research and clinical applications.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.