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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Public Attitudes toward Consent and Data Sharing in Biobank Research: A Large Multi-site Experimental Survey in the US.
- Saskia C Sanderson, Kyle B Brothers, Nathaniel D Mercaldo, Ellen Wright Clayton, Antommaria Armand H Matheny AHM Ethics Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA., Sharon A Aufox, Murray H Brilliant, Diego Campos, David S Carrell, John Connolly, Pat Conway, Stephanie M Fullerton, Nanibaa' A Garrison, Carol R Horowitz, Gail P Jarvik, David Kaufman, Terrie E Kitchner, Rongling Li, Evette J Ludman, Catherine A McCarty, Jennifer B McCormick, Valerie D McManus, Melanie F Myers, Aaron Scrol, Janet L Williams, Martha J Shrubsole, Jonathan S Schildcrout, Maureen E Smith, and Ingrid A Holm.
- Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, UK; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: saskia.sanderson@ucl.ac.uk.
- Am. J. Hum. Genet. 2017 Mar 2; 100 (3): 414-427.
AbstractIndividuals participating in biobanks and other large research projects are increasingly asked to provide broad consent for open-ended research use and widespread sharing of their biosamples and data. We assessed willingness to participate in a biobank using different consent and data sharing models, hypothesizing that willingness would be higher under more restrictive scenarios. Perceived benefits, concerns, and information needs were also assessed. In this experimental survey, individuals from 11 US healthcare systems in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network were randomly allocated to one of three hypothetical scenarios: tiered consent and controlled data sharing; broad consent and controlled data sharing; or broad consent and open data sharing. Of 82,328 eligible individuals, exactly 13,000 (15.8%) completed the survey. Overall, 66% (95% CI: 63%-69%) of population-weighted respondents stated they would be willing to participate in a biobank; willingness and attitudes did not differ between respondents in the three scenarios. Willingness to participate was associated with self-identified white race, higher educational attainment, lower religiosity, perceiving more research benefits, fewer concerns, and fewer information needs. Most (86%, CI: 84%-87%) participants would want to know what would happen if a researcher misused their health information; fewer (51%, CI: 47%-55%) would worry about their privacy. The concern that the use of broad consent and open data sharing could adversely affect participant recruitment is not supported by these findings. Addressing potential participants' concerns and information needs and building trust and relationships with communities may increase acceptance of broad consent and wide data sharing in biobank research.Copyright © 2017 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.
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