What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?

Ferguson, Eamonn

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.005

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“…Although explored within a farming population, the principles and ndings have immediate applicability to wider disease prevention behaviour. It has been argued that behavioural science has a key role to play in helping manage responses to pandemics 8 , encouraging vaccination behaviour 12 and health based philanthropy 9,10 . However, the focus on heterogeneity in behaviour that is central to a behavioural science approach needs to be incorporated within large-scale policy-based approaches.…”

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“…The second is to develop interventions that target individual behavioural change with respect to such practices as vaccinations, and social distancing, with the assumption that if enough people change their behaviour the desired outcome will be achieved 8 . Indeed, it has been argued that behavioural science has a key role to play in helping manage responses to pandemics 8 , encourage vaccination behaviour 12 and health based philanthropy 9,10 . However, the focus on heterogeneity in behaviour that is central to a behavioural science approach needs to be incorporated within large-scale policy-based approaches that rest on modelling population-based outcomes to disease outbreaks.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model

Hill

Prosser

Brown

et al. 2023

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Human behaviour is critical to effective responses to livestock disease outbreaks, especially with respect to vaccination uptake. Traditionally, mathematical models used to inform this behaviour have not taken heterogeneity in farmer behaviour into account. We address this by exploring how heterogeneity in farmers vaccination behaviour can be incorporated to inform mathematical models. We developed and used a graphical user interface to elicit farmers (n = 60) vaccination decisions to an unfolding epidemic and linked this to their psychosocial and behavioural profiles. We identified, via cluster analysis, robust patterns of heterogeneity in vaccination behaviour. By incorporating these groupings into a mathematical livestock disease model, we explored how heterogeneity in behaviour impacts epidemiological outcomes. When assuming homogeneity in farmer behaviour versus configurations informed by the psychosocial profile cluster estimates, the modelled scenarios revealed a disconnect in projected distributions and threshold statistics across outbreak size, outbreak duration and health economic measures.

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Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model

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Prosser

Brown

et al. 2023

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“…A survey was designed to cover a wide spectrum of relevant other-regarding preferences. These included altruism ( West et al, 2007 ; Bshary and Bergmüller, 2008 ; Pfattheicher et al, 2022 ), reactive reluctant altruism (helping because of lack of trust that others will help; Ferguson et al, 2012 ; Ferguson, 2022 ), and trust and distrust ( McKnight and Chervany, 2001 ). Altruism was assessed using the SVO slider measure questions in which farmers chose to allocate money between themselves and another unknown farmer ( Murphy et al, 2011 ).…”

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“…For example, prosocial individuals are more likely to get vaccinated, unlike proself people who are more likely to rely on herd immunity ( Böhm et al, 2016 ). People may also show reactive reluctant altruism, behaving in a way that benefits others but only because they do not trust others to help, which, for example, is important in blood donation behavior ( Ferguson et al, 2012 ; Ferguson, 2022 ). Behaviorally, generosity and altruism can be investigated using dictator games where a decision maker chooses how to split an endowment between themselves and another person ( Forsythe et al, 1994 ).…”

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Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea

Prosser

Green

Ferguson

et al. 2022

Journal of Dairy Science

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Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is endemic in the United Kingdom and causes major economic losses. Control is largely voluntary for individual farmers and is likely to be influenced by psychosocial factors, such as altruism, trust, and psychological proximity (feeling close) to relevant "others," such as farmers, veterinarians, the government, and their cows. These psychosocial factors (factors with both psychological and social aspects) are important determinants of how people make decisions related to their own health, many of which have not been studied in the context of infectious disease control by farmers. Farmer psychosocial profiles were investigated using multiple validated measures in an observational survey of 475 UK cattle farmers using the capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior (COM-B) framework. Farmers were clustered by their BVD control practices using latent class analysis. Farmers were split into 5 BVD control behavior classes, which were tested for associations with the psychosocial and COM-B factors using multinomial logistic regression, with doing nothing as the baseline class. Farmers who were controlling disease both for themselves and others were more likely to do something to control BVD (e.g., test, vaccinate). Farmers who did not trust other farmers, had high psychological capability (knowledge and understanding of how to control disease), and had high physical opportunity (time and money to control disease) were more likely to have a closed, separate herd and test. Farmers who did not trust other farmers were also more likely to undertake many prevention strategies with an open herd. Farmers with high automatic motivation (habits and emotions) and reflective motivation (decisions and goals) were more likely to vaccinate and test, alone or in combination with other controls. Farmers with high psychological proximity (feeling of closeness) to their veterinarian were more likely to undertake many prevention strategies in an open herd. Farmers with high psychological proximity to dairy farmers and low psychological proximity to beef farmers were more likely to keep their herd closed and separate and test or vaccinate and test. Farmers who had a lot of trust in other farmers and invested in them, rather than keeping everything for themselves, were more likely to be careful introducing new stock and test. In conclusion, farmer psychosocial factors were associated with strategies for BVD control in UK cattle farmers. Psychological proximity to veterinarians was a novel factor associated with proactive BVD control and was more important than the more extensively investigated trust. These findings highlight the importance of a close veterinarian-farmer relationship and are important for promoting effective BVD control by farmers, which has implications for successful nationwide BVD control and eradication schemes.

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“…One person freely chooses to donate their organs to others when she or he dies. The donor’s motive is to benefit others; they do not stand to profit in any other way from donating their organs (for a detailed analysis of the psychology of altruistic organ donation, see Ferguson 2022 ). 3…”

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An Ethical Defense of a Mandated Choice Consent Procedure for Deceased Organ Donation

Symons

Poulden

2022

ABR

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Organ transplant shortages are ubiquitous in healthcare systems around the world. In response, several commentators have argued for the adoption of an opt-out policy for organ transplantation, whereby individuals would by default be registered as organ donors unless they informed authorities of their desire to opt-out. This may potentially lead to an increase in donation rates. An opt-out system, however, presumes consent even when it is evident that a significant minority are resistant to organ donation. In this article, we defend a mandated choice framework for consent to deceased organ donation. A mandated choice framework, coupled with good public education, would likely increase donation rates. More importantly, however, a mandated choice framework would respect the autonomous preferences of people who do not wish to donate. We focus in particular on the Australian healthcare context, and consider how a mandated choice system could function as an ethical means to increase the organ donation rate in Australia. We make the novel proposal that all individuals who vote at an Australian federal election be required to state their organ donation preferences when voting.

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What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?

Cited by 13 publications

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Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model

Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model

Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea

An Ethical Defense of a Mandated Choice Consent Procedure for Deceased Organ Donation

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