Knowledge and opinions about organ donation among urban high school students: pilot test of a health education program

Weaver, Marcia R.; Spigner, Clarence; Pineda, Michele; Rabun, Kimi; Allen, Margaret D.

doi:10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140404.x

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“…The first component was adapted from the work of Sander [30] and Weaver [42]. This scale consisted of 16 items that had true/false response options.…”

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“…It might be that knowing a transplant recipient is an example of consciousness raising, which is one of the ten theorized processes that have received the most empirical support. Several donation-related interventions were developed with the goal of consciousness raising [23,42,70,71]. For example, the Project ACTS: About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing intervention package includes a culturally-sensitive video in which living donors, donor families, and recipients talk candidly about their experience with donation and/or transplantation in order to create a personal connection.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

Arriola

Robinson

Perryman

et al. 2008

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objectives-To explore the association between different types of knowledge related to donation and transplantation and the expression of donation intentions via one's driver's license, a donor card, or sharing one's wishes with family.Methods-Cross-sectional data were gathered via self-administered questionnaire from 425 Black adults, age 18 years and older who were recruited from nine churches in a large metropolitan area in the southeast United States.Results-Results indicate that knowledge of the allocation system and experiential knowledge of a transplant recipient are associated with donation intentions after controlling for age, gender, and highest level of education. However, the following types of knowledge were unrelated to donation intentions: donation-related statistics (including an understanding of African Americans' overrepresentation among those in need), the donation process, the process for determining medical suitability, and religious institutions' support for donation.Conclusions-Findings suggest that the relationship between donation-related knowledge and donation intentions is complex and may depend on the specific type of knowledge being measured.Practice Implications-Knowledge of the allocation system and experiential knowledge of a recipient may be critical aspects of the donation decision-making process. Research findings suggest the need for an educational approach that seeks to improve the specific types of knowledge that are most strongly associated with donation intentions.

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“…The first component was adapted from the work of Sander [30] and Weaver [42]. This scale consisted of 16 items that had true/false response options.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

Arriola

Robinson

Perryman

et al. 2008

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Potential donors' concerns related to the surgical procedure and recovery following live kidney donation may not reflect knowledge about new advances in transplantation (24)(25)(26). confidence intervals (--).…”

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The General Public's Concerns about Clinical Risk in Live Kidney Donation

Boulware

Ratner²,

Sosa³

et al. 2002

American Journal of Transplantation

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Difficulty in attracting live kidney donors may be related to fears regarding both the surgical procedure for kidney harvesting and future failure of the remaining kidney. We conducted a cross-sectional study of households in Maryland to identify public disincentives to living related kidney donation. In multivariate analyses, we assessed the independent effects of several factors on willingness to donate a kidney to a sibling. We also assessed thresholds for factors above which persons would not donate a kidney. Of 385 participants, 66% were extremely willing to donate to a sibling. After adjustment, those who considered the length of a hospital stay, out-of-pocket expenses, size and appearance of a scar, the time it takes to get to the transplant center, and the donor risk of developing kidney failure very important had 50-60% less odds of being extremely willing to donate. Median acceptable levels for risk of complications, hospital stay, compensated and uncompensated time from work, time requiring pain medications, and out-of-pocket expenses were greater than levels from clinical evidence regarding both laparoscopic and open nephrectomy. Unrealistic concerns among the general public regarding live donation may serve as potential disincentives to donation. Efforts to educate the public regarding live donation might help assuage fears and attract those who may not otherwise donate.

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“…Most such studies emphasise the importance of knowledge on organ donation and transplantation in determining willingness to donate organs (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10). On the other hand, many authors have also identified the role of religion in guiding people's viewpoints and attitude toward organ donation (7,, people become more willing to donate when they know that religious leaders (RLs) support organ donation (15).…”

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Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Comparison of Three Influential Groups of Muslim Professionals

Makmor¹,

Khaled³

et al. 2015

JUMMEC

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Organ transplantation is a new treatment for end-stage organ failure. However, the total number of transplants performed in Malaysia in 2012 was only 94. Rates of deceased and living donors in Malaysia for 2012 were chronically low (0.55 and 1.87 per million population, respectively). A sample of 350 respondents in mosques, hospitals, and universities in various places in the Klang Valley, Kelantan and Pahang were collected between October and December 2013 to investigate the level of knowledge of health care professionals (HCPs), religious leaders (RLs), and academics (ACAs) and their stand on two issues on brain death. The result on the first issue (procuring organs from brain dead donors for transplantation) revealed that 52.8%, 23.7%, and 23.4% of HCPs, RLs, and ACAs, respectively, were in support of it; 30.2%, 31.8%, and 45.2% were uncertain about it; and 17%, 44.5%, and 31.5% were against it. On the second issue (terminating the life support machine of a brain dead person), 60.4%, 35.7%, and 25% of HCPs, RLs, and ACAs, respectively, were in support of it; 26.4%, 36.4%, and 38.7% were uncertain about it; and 13.2%, 27.7%, and 36.3% were against it. The lack of knowledge on Islam brain death-related issues should be addressed by educational efforts targeting these three groups of professionals. Special emphasis should be paid to educating RLs as they can channel their knowledge and perception to the other groups and to the Muslim public.

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Knowledge and opinions about organ donation among urban high school students: pilot test of a health education program

Abstract: Overall, this pilot study provided encouraging evidence that the classroom health education program affected knowledge about organ donation, and that opinions about organ donation are responsive to increases in knowledge.

Cited by 59 publications

References 15 publications

Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

The General Public's Concerns about Clinical Risk in Live Kidney Donation

Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Comparison of Three Influential Groups of Muslim Professionals

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