Understanding the value of biobank attributes to researchers using a conjoint experiment.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
20 Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 24 05 2023
accepted: 07 12 2023
medline: 21 12 2023
pubmed: 21 12 2023
entrez: 20 12 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Biobanks are important in biomedical and public health research, and future healthcare research relies on their strength and capacity. However, there are financial challenges related to the operation of commercial biobanks and concerns around the commercialization of biobanks. Non-commercial biobanks depend on grant funding to operate and could be valuable to researchers if they can enable access to quality specimens at lower costs. The objective of this study is to estimate the value of specific biobank attributes. We used a rating-based conjoint experiment approach to study how researchers valued handling fee, access, quality, characterization, breadth of consent, access to key endemics, and time taken to fulfil requests. We found that researchers placed the greatest relative importance on the quality of specimens (26%), followed by the characterization of specimens (21%). Researchers with prior experience purchasing biological samples also valued access to key endemic in-country sites (11.6%) and low handling fees (5.5%) in biobanks.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38123601
doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-49394-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-023-49394-6
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

22728

Subventions

Organisme : CDC HHS
ID : 21IPA2113462
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Deepshikha Batheja (D)

One Health Trust, Obeya Pulse, First Floor, 7/1, Halasur Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560102, India. deepshikha@onehealthtrust.org.

Srishti Goel (S)

One Health Trust, Obeya Pulse, First Floor, 7/1, Halasur Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560102, India.

Warren Fransman (W)

Specimen Bank, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.

Anna Mantsoki (A)

FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.

Stefano Ongarello (S)

FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ramanan Laxminarayan (R)

One Health Trust, Obeya Pulse, First Floor, 7/1, Halasur Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560102, India.

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