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ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2020

«If you give them your little finger, they'll tear off your entire arm»: losing trust in biobank research.

Lars Ursin, Borgunn Ytterhus, Erik Christensen, John-Arne Skolbekken

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Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Trust and Support for Cancer Research Biobanks: Insights from Cancer Patients in Poland.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024
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  6. Associations between the Willingness to Donate Samples to Biobanks and Selected Psychological Variables.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  10. Knowledge repositories. In digital knowledge we trust.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lars UrsinDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway. lars.ursin@ntnu.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5892-2823
Borgunn YtterhusDepartment of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway.
Erik ChristensenFaculty of Social Sciences, Nord University, 8049, Bodø, Norway.
John-Arne SkolbekkenDepartment of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Why do some people withdraw from biobank studies? To our knowledge, very few studies have been done on the reflections of biobank ex-participants. In this article, we report from such a study. 16 years ago, we did focus group interviews with biobank participants and ex-participants. We found that the two groups interestingly shared worries concerning the risks involved in possible novel uses of their biobank material, even though they drew opposite conclusions from their worries. Revisiting these interviews today reveals a remarkable relevance to present concerns, since the possible developments that worried ex-participants and participants 16 years ago now are becoming realities. Drawing on conceptual distinctions by sociologist and philosopher Niklas Luhmann, we argue that while ex-participants express a loss of trust in the biobank institution to manage the use of their biobank material in a legitimate way, remaining participants expressed confidence in the management of the biobank institution to secure their interests. This analysis brings out important aspects of emerging trends in biobank research participation.

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TrustBiological Specimen BanksBiomedical ResearchConfidentialityFemaleFocus GroupsHumansInformed ConsentMaleMotivationAlienationConfidenceConsent withdrawalEthicsInformed consent

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PMID32734531
PMCPMC7538395

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