Stakeholders on biobanks: awareness, willingness to cooperate, challenges

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INTRODUCTION: Biobanking is an important tool for the development of biomedical science that enables acquisition, storage and use of biomaterials for various studies. Key stakeholders in biobanks are their personnel, patient donors and healthcare workers providing preanalytical services. To successfully integrate biobanks into practice, it is necessary that attitudes of all stakeholders towards biobanking, especially healthcare workers be taken into account.

AIM: To assess awareness, willingness to cooperate, and motivation of healthcare workers, biomedical students and the general public to participate in biobanking processes, and to identify challenges and barriers to biobank development.

A manual analysis of publications in the Medline, Google Scholar, and CyberLeninka databases was conducted without publication date restrictions. The search was conducted using the following keywords: bank, biobanking, trust in biobanks (In Russ.), biobank, tissue banks, health personnel, medical students, awareness, public, biobanking knowledge, healthcare professionals, biobank participation willingness, biobank research participation, and trust (In Eng.). Studies from various regions (the Middle East, Europe, Russia, the USA, Africa, Asia, and Oceania; a total of 35 publications) were selected. The analysis included surveys, interviews, and expert opinions on awareness, willingness to donate, and ethical aspects. Awareness and willingness of healthcare workers to cooperate with biobanks depend on the sociocultural context of the country: in economically developed countries, awareness level is higher, with a positive attitude toward biobanking for precision medicine, but with barriers such as lack of knowledge and low trust. In economically developing countries awareness is low. Among students of biomedical universities awareness varies. The willingness of the population to donate also varies across the countries, but trust and education play a key role: students are more motivated by altruism. The challenges faced by biobanks in different countries are similar: ethical risks, lack of informed consent standards, infrastructural problems, and the length of the procedure.

CONCLUSION: Biobanking development requires raising awareness and trust among stakeholders through educational programs. The introduction of unified standards, ethical norms and national initiatives will help overcome the barriers, integrate biobanks into practice and facilitate scientific discoveries in medicine.

About the authors

Iuliia O. Bakhareva

Siberian State Medical University

Email: bahareva.yo@ssmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2845-8278
SPIN-code: 7054-9310

MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)

Russian Federation, Tomsk

Ekaterina M. Kamenskih

Siberian State Medical University

Email: kamenskih.em@ssmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0814-8344
SPIN-code: 1141-3629

MD, Cand. Sci. (Medicine)

Russian Federation, Tomsk

Aleksandra Y. Nagornaya

Siberian State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: krygina.ay@ssmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3145-0739
Russian Federation, Tomsk

Olga S. Fedorova

Siberian State Medical University

Email: fedorova.os@ssmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7130-9609
SPIN-code: 5285-4593

MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Professor

Russian Federation, Tomsk

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