Drivers of consumers' behavioral intention toward private umbilical cord blood banking: a review.
Cell Tissue Bank
; 24(3): 651-661, 2023 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
Immunitary bioeconomy encompasses a significant share of the bioeconomy that is accompanied by a high degree of complexity and various religious and ethical controversies for both customers and the service providers. Compared to blood banking, these complexities are more substantial for the new state-of-the-art technology of umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking, in which the viable therapeutically active substance of cord blood (i.e., cord blood stem cells (CBSCs)) is banked for much less likely future demand. It became even more complicated when we knew that the main three types of cord blood banking industry (i.e., private, public, or hybrid models) are not the same regarding economic, ethical, and even social considerations. The present paper aims to review and discuss the main drivers of behavioral intention among the customers of private UCB banking. We focused on private UCB banking because, although there is a low likelihood of childs' future need for their siblings' CBSCs, there is an unnecessary growing demand for using private UCB banking services. Based on the previously published pieces of research, we discussed five main influential factors (i.e., awareness, reference group, usability, disease history, and price) that can affect the customers' risk perception (and further their behavioral intention) to preserve their child UCB for private applications. Finally, we concluded that private UCB banking must not be considered a commercial activity, and ethically healthcare managers must be more actively involved in facilitating the proper flow of information among the customers.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Intenção
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Armazenamento de Sangue
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Child
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article