(FY 1999 – FY 2007)
Fiscal Year 1999 Grantees
Grantee:
Albany Medical College and Center for Donation and Transplant,
Albany, NY
Project: Testing and Replication of
a Model Volunteer Program
This project proposes to increase donation consent rates
by evaluating and replicating a volunteer program that
teaches mothers of organ donors to counsel potential donor
families about the option of donation. The project will
enable an assessment of the donor family member’s
role in, and impact on, the donation decision process.
Grantee: California Transplant Donor Network,
San Francisco, CA, and Market Study International, Houston,
TX
Project: Proposal to Increase Organ
Donation Consent Rates Involving Targeted Minority Populations
This grant award will facilitate the development of cultural
diversity and request training programs to garner donation
support among African Americans and Asians in Northern
California.
Grantee:
Donor Network of Arizona, Phoenix, and University of Arizona
College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Project: Comprehensive Approach to
Raising Organ and Tissue Donation Consent in the Hispanic
Population
This project proposes to increase donation consent rates
among Hispanic families through a comprehensive approach
– including community, media, and requester outreach
– to increase donor awareness and family discussions.
Grantee: Education Development Center and
New England Organ Bank, Newton, MA
Project: Increasing Organ Donation
by Enhancing End-of-Life Care: A Family-Centered Quality
Improvement Program
This project is based on empirical research indicating
that families are more likely to consent to organ donation
if they are satisfied with the care that their loved ones
received at the end of life. The New England Organ Bank
and the Education Development Center of Boston will collaborate
with hospitals in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New
Hampshire to enhance end-of-life care and improve the
donation request process. The study aims to increase health
professionals’ comfort and skill discussing death
and dying and to build hospitals’ capacity to support
families through the end-of-life period.
Grantee: Emory University and LifeLink
of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Project: The Renaissance State-Wide
Initiative to Increase Organ Donation in the State of Georgia
The purpose of this project is to replicate a successful
donation-enhancing program launched at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta known as the “Renaissance Project.”
This end-of-life care model will be expanded to four additional
Georgia hospitals with the goal of enhancing family support
practices and increasing the number of organ donors at
each institution.
Grantee:
Golden State Donor Services, Sacramento, CA, and Market
Study International, Houston, TX
Project: Increasing Donation in the
Hispanic Community Through Mass Media
This project aims to reverse the declining rate of donation
consent among Hispanic families in the Sacramento area
by implementing and evaluating an ethnically sensitive
media campaign. This undertaking is especially critical
in California due to the disproportionate rate at which
Hispanics are placed on the transplant waiting list because
of end-stage organ failure.
Grantee:
Howard University and Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant
Education Program (MOTTEP), Washington, DC
Project: “Say YES!” to
Organ and Tissue Donation: Implementation and Evaluation
of a Promising Youth Intervention
This project seeks to increase the number of youth registering
to become donors when obtaining a driver’s license
by encouraging family discussions and promoting an informed
donation decision. This program will enhance existing
school-age driver curriculum with materials to increase
family discussion on organ and tissue donations, raise
positive consent rates, and increase youth awareness of
organ donation needs.
Grantee:
Johns Hopkins University and Transplant Resource Center
of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Project: Interdisciplinary Experiential
Training for End-of-Life Care and Organ Donation
This
project will implement and evaluate a family-centered
program focusing on end-of-life decision making and organ
donation discussions with the goal of increasing the frequency
of donation consent. The proposed program will utilize
a multi-disciplinary approach involving such health care
professionals as physicians, nurses, hospital clergy,
and organ procurement coordinators who play consistent,
important, and inter-dependent roles in caring for patients
and families when organ donation is possible.
Grantee:
Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, Louisville, and University
of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Project: Increasing Commitment to Organ
and Tissue Donation Through a Work-Site Intervention
Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates will collaborate with
United Parcel Service to study the effect of a work-place
donor education program. This program could potentially
serve as a model for corporate education programs throughout
the country.
Grantee:
LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Houston, and University
of Houston, Clear Lake, TX
Project: African-American Community
Outreach Project
This program aims to increase family donation discussions
and minority community support by implementing and evaluating
an intensive education and training program targeting
African American religious and spiritual leaders in Harris
County, TX. The project will prepare clergy to develop
and implement effective donation education and support
programs for each of their congregations.
Grantee:
LifeGift Organ Donation Center, Houston, and University
of Houston, Clear Lake, TX
Project: Project to Increase Organ
Recovery From Level 1 Trauma Centers
This project proposes to replicate a successful pilot
program which significantly increased organ donation by
placing “in house procurement coordinators”
in two Level 1 Trauma Centers. The grantee will disseminate
the concept to hospitals in Detroit, Seattle, and Houston
demonstrating significant untapped donor potential.
Grantee:
Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency, Metairie, and Keating
Magee & Associates, New Orleans, LA
Project: The Kiosk Learning Center:
A Community Outreach Approach to Increase Donor Consent
Rates, Public Access, and Overall Awareness
This project will attempt to improve driver’s license
renewal efficiency and enhance donor education and registry
sign-up by placing in public venues ATM-like kiosks that
enable these functions.
Grantee:
National Kidney Foundation, New York, NY, and ITG Enterprises,
Columbia, MO
Project: Take Time to Talk: A Family
Discussion Guide
The National Kidney Foundation will study the feasibility
of incorporating a donation education program into funeral
pre-planning activities. The goal of this program is to
provide individuals the opportunity to conduct family
discussions about donation at the time they are making
other end-of-life arrangements.
Grantee:
Oklahoma Organ Sharing Network, Oklahoma City, and University
of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Project: Project Team Life
This proposal seeks to increase commitment to donate by
implementing and evaluating the impact of an organ and
tissue donation and transplantation curriculum in elementary
and secondary public schools in Oklahoma.
Grantee:
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan, TransWeb,
and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Project: Measuring the Effectiveness
of a Multimedia Internet-Based Approach to Increasing Donor
Registry Participation
This project aims to expand a previously existing transplant
education Internet site by creating a new path focusing
on the donor family’s view of organ donation. The
project’s intent is to encourage participants to
join a donor registry and provide specially designed electronic
greeting cards to notify family members of the registrant’s
desire to donate.
Grantee: Regional Organ Bank of Illinois
and University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Project: Impact of Educational Interventions
Regarding Organ Donation on Declaration of Intention to
Donate and on Family Discussion in the African American
Community
This project seeks to increase the number of African-Americans
who are willing to join the Illinois organ donor registry
and talk to their families about their decision by assessing
the effectiveness of two separate strategies to encourage
registry participation and by conducting and evaluating
an ethnically sensitive media campaign.
Grantee:
South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation, Richmond,
VA, and the University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Project: Stage-Based Curriculum Training
for Procurement Coordinators to Increase Family Consent
for Organ and Tissue Donation
The aim of this project is to improve family donation
consent rates by training procurement coordinators to
match their donation requests to reflect the family’s
readiness to donate. This project, involving staff from
16 of the Nation’s 61 organ procurement organizations,
represents the first multi-center study of requester training
program effectiveness.
Grantee:
Upstate New York Transplant Services and State
University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Project: Decision for Life: An Intervention
to Increase Organ Donation in the African American Community
This program seeks to increase the number of African Americans
in the Buffalo urban community who have signed donor cards
and discussed donation with their families. It will train
African American community educators to implement public
education programs and increase medical student and resident
awareness of the importance of approaching potential donor
families in a culturally sensitive manner.
Fiscal Year 2000 Grantees
Grantee: Alabama Organ Center and University
of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Project: A Model Intervention for Increasing
African-Americans’ Intent to Donate in Two Counties
in Alabama
The use of church health advocates to promote donation
will be tested in two Alabama counties. Project components
include provision of educational materials, incorporation
of the clergy person as an agent of change and promotion
of the state donor registry.
Grantee:
Asian Transplant Awareness in Southern California, Orange,
and Southern California Organ Procurement Center, Los Angeles,
CA
Project: A Grass Roots Effort to Increase
Organ Donation Among Asians in Southern California
This project focuses on Chinese and Vietnamese Asian populations,
testing the involvement of trained requestors who discuss
donation in the native tongue of families of potential
donors. It also will evaluate the target groups’
attitude toward donation as affected by a media campaign
and an existing targeted approach for increasing organ
donation in Asian communities.
Grantee:
New York Organ Donor Network and Columbia University,
New York City, NY
Project: Project to Support Donation:
Changing the Culture of Organ and Tissue Donation
A team of crisis support specialists will provide crisis
intervention services to suddenly bereaved and grieving
family members of potential organ donors. A subset of
the team will be hospital-based full-time. The project
team will be evaluated for its effectiveness in supporting
families and increasing rates of consent.
Grantee:
Southern California Organ Procurement Center, Los Angeles,
and Strategy Research Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA
Project: Hispanic Media Campaign
The purpose of the project is to evaluate the success
and cost-effectiveness of a targeted culturally sensitive
media campaign to increase organ and tissue donation in
the Hispanic community. Input from community leaders will
help to shape the message to be delivered through a variety
of media.
Grantee:
Upstate New York Transplant Services and State
University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Project: "Talk It Up:" Students
and Families Discussing Organ Donation
Through a teacher training program and a class-assigned
family interview, the project provides high school students
with the knowledge and incentive to promote family discussion
and shared decision-making about organ donation. The approach
includes a post-discussion "debriefing" session,
as well as the use of a take-home study guide and a resource
manual.
Fiscal Year 2001 Grantees
Grantee:
Carolina Donor Services, Durham, NC, and University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, RI
Project: Individual and Campus-Wide
Interventions to Increase Donation Intentions Among African-American
College Students
This project will evaluate the efficacy of a theory-based
innovative individualized intervention for increasing
organ and tissue donation intention rates among African-American
college students. It will build upon the success of an
ongoing campus-wide intervention to increase donation
intentions by adding proactive individually tailored interventions
to further increase donation intentions.
Grantee:
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, and Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA
Project: Utilizing the Structure and
Resources of a Multi-Hospital Health System to Improve Organ
Donation Rates
This project will test the effects of a program of awareness,
education, and training for hospital personnel on rates
of organ donation referral and actual donors in a multi-hospital
system.
Grantee:
Intermountain Organ Recovery System and University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Project: Improving Organ and Tissue
Donation through a Comprehensive Donor Registry and Statewide
Community Outreach Campaign
This project will study the utility of a new, comprehensive,
centralized statewide organ and tissue donor registry
system and its impact on declarations of intent, consent
rates, and organ and tissue donation. The project also
will use the registry to evaluate both interest in, and
actual, unrelated living donation rates within a multi-hospital
system.
Grantee:
LifeNet Organ Procurement Organization, Virginia Beach,
and
Medical
College of Virginia Hospitals & Physicians of the Virginia
Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA
Project: Replication of Family Communication
Protocol to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation
This project attempts to increase organ donation and the
availability of transplantable organs through replication
of a Family Communication Coordinator (FCC) Protocol in
a general hospital. The hypothesis is that the FCC program
will increase organ and tissue donation through better
care of families faced with the possibility of donation.
Grantee:
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois and University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
Project: “Corporate Contributions
For Life:” Supporting Organ/Tissue Donation Awareness
in the Workplace
This project will test a model program to increase awareness
of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in the
workplace. Each project year, five major Chicago-area
corporations of at least nine branches each will participate
in study. Corporations will be randomly assigned to participate
in one of two intervention modes or a control group.
Grantee:
North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, and
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Project: Intervention Evaluation for
Organ Donation in Two Mississippi Communities
This project will evaluate a series of multimodal interventions
to improve attitudes toward and commitment to organ donation
in two Mississippi counties with very low donation rates
and relatively low support for donation.
Grantee:
North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck,
and Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Project: A Systematic Model for the
Improvement of Communication with Family Members about Death
and Imminent Death in a Non-Transplant Hospital
This project will evaluate the impact of a timed family
communication and support intervention on rates of consent
for organ donation in five non-transplant hospitals on
Long Island. The intervention consists of utilizing a
team of specially trained on-call family communicators
to provide information and social support to the family
members of patients who are facing imminent brain death.
Grantee:
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan and University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
Project: Measuring the Effectiveness
of a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Improving Attitudes
Toward Organ Donation in the Arab-American/Chaldean Community
In response to the paucity of donation research on Middle
Eastern ethnic groups in the United States, this project
will launch and evaluate the effects of a comprehensive
community awareness campaign on organ donation rates among
targeted Arab-American and Chaldean communities.
Grantee:
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Gift of Life
Donor Program, and
LifeSource
Institute for Transplant Research, Education, Ethics, &
Policy, Philadelphia, PA
Project: A Study of the Presumptive
Approach to Consent for Organ Donation
The purpose of this project is to increase the consent
and donation rate for organ and tissue transplantation
by altering the approach to donor families during the
consent discussion. Transplant coordinators will approach
donor families, regardless of the presence of a driver's
license or other form of donor designation, using a “Presumptive
Approach to Consent.”
Grantee:
University of Miami Organ Procurement Organization, Coral
Gables, and University of Miami, Miami, FL
Project: A Model Intervention for Increasing
Intent to Donate in Primary Care Centers and Churches in
Miami-Dade County, Florida
The purpose of this model intervention is to increase
the number of minority organ and tissue donors by increasing
intent to donate coupled with family notification of intent
to donate among Blacks, Haitians, and Hispanics living
in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A secondary purpose is
to document project processes and outcomes to enable replication
in other multi-ethnic communities.
Grantee:
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Organ Procurement
Organization and Knupp & Watson, Madison, WI
Project: A Model for the Implementation
of Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Protocols
This project seeks to produce a verifiable and demonstrable
increase in organ donations through implementation and
testing of a protocol for donation after cardiac death.
This model will include the modification of existing specialized
designated requester training modules to include information
related specifically to DCD.
Grantee:
Upstate New York Transplant Services and State University
of New York, Buffalo, NY
Project: “Legacy for Life:”
Lawyer’s Role in Organ and Tissue Donation Education
This project will implement a program to educate the legal
community about organ/tissue donation and prepare and
encourage attorneys to educate their clients about the
critical need for donation. Client declarations of intent
to donate coupled with family notification will serve
as outcome measures. This intervention also seeks to enhance
the level of communication between the legal community
and health care providers with the organ procurement organization
to increase the likelihood that an individual's wish to
donate is fulfilled.
Fiscal Year 2002 Grantees
Grantee:
Albany Medical College and Center for Donation and Transplant,
Albany, NY
Project: Social Support for Families
Considering Organ Donation: Transferability of the MOD (Mothers
of Donors) Squad Volunteer Intervention Program
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of a hospital-based
peer support intervention on consent rates, family satisfaction,
and coping in three regions with markedly different population
characteristics. The project builds on the successful
implementation and testing of the MOD Squad program--
entailing support by mothers of donors to families faced
with the death of a loved one -- in Upstate and Western
New York, also sponsored by a HRSA grant. This expanded
initiative will allow the grantee to evaluate the transferability
and generalizability of the outcomes of the intervention.
Grantee:
Donor Network of Arizona, Phoenix, and University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Project: Maximizing Donor Registry Utility
via Full Service Kiosks
The purpose of this project is to test the effectiveness
of a media campaign in promoting “all-in-one”
kiosks to encourage individuals to register as donors.
Grantee:
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, the Transplant Resource
Center of Maryland, and
Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Project: Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary
Experiential Training Program for End-of-Life Care and Organ
Donation
The purpose of this project is to evaluate the reproducibility
of a model training intervention that has been shown to
increase organ donation by 20 percent at a single hospital
by implementing it at three additional hospitals in Maryland.
The model training intervention uses the standardized
patient method with simulated families to teach an organized,
interdisciplinary family-centered approach to care, with
particular attention to the processes and communications
skills for end-of-life decision making and the decoupled
model of presenting the option of organ donation. Based
on the results of this project, the grantee will prepare
training materials for dissemination of the model training
intervention to hospitals, health systems, and organ procurement
organizations throughout the United States.
Grantee:
Lifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement Organization, Columbus,
and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Project: Ohio's First Person Consent
Donor Registry – A Help or Hindrance: Comparing Organ
Donation Through a First Person Consent Donor Registry and
Statewide Donation Campaign
The project will use a retrospective and prospective design
to compare the impact of Ohio's first person consent donor
registry and a statewide media campaign on Ohioans’
donation attitudes and behaviors.
Grantee:
LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services and the University of
Florida, Gainesville, FL
Project: Increasing Living Kidney Donation:
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Home-Based Intervention
The primary objective of this research is to implement
and evaluate a home-based educational intervention designed
to increase living kidney donation rates. Adult patients
who have been wait-listed for kidney transplantation will
be randomized to receive either standard clinic-based
education about living kidney donation or clinic-based
education plus a home-based intervention involving family
members and significant others. It is hypothesized that
the clinic-based education plus home-based intervention
will reach more people, reduce barriers to living donation,
and contribute to higher rates of living kidney donation
and transplantation.
Grantee:
Mid-America Transplant Services and Research & Planning
Group, St.Louis, MO
Project: The Mobile Learning Center:
Is it More Effective than Traditional Educational Efforts?
The purpose of this grant is to study the effectiveness
of three different educational interventions – a
Mobile Learning Center, OPO presentations, and teacher
taught curriculum – on donation attitudes and behaviors
of children in grades six to eight. In addition, the grantee
will evaluate the project's impact on the attitudes, acceptance,
and involvement of the teachers who implement each intervention.
Grantee:
The Sharing Network Organ and Tissue Donation Services,
Springfield, and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Project: The University Worksite Organ
Donation Promotion Campaign: Targeting Administrators, Faculty,
Staff, and Students Using the Organ Donation Model
This university worksite project will target the willingness
of faculty, staff, administrators, and students to sign
organ donor cards and discuss organ donation with family
members. In addition to increasing the rates of signed
cards and family discussion, this project seeks to increase
knowledge about the most effective channels for organ
donation promotion messages. This is a six-site project
with three quasi-experimental conditions: Two sites will
receive only mass media messages, while two others will
receive a mass media campaign supplemented with an interpersonal
component. These campaign sites will be contrasted with
two control sites. In sidebar studies at the control sites,
a series of qualitative studies will examine the factors
that impact real-life family discussions about organ donation,
with a particular focus on African American families.
Grantee:
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA,
and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Project: Targeted Intervention to Increase
Living Kidney Donation
This project seeks to increase the number of living kidney
donations by targeting the intervention to each patient's
and potential donor's stage of cognitive-motivational
readiness to consider living donation.
Grantee:
University of Washington and Hope Heart Institute, Seattle,
WA
Project: A Multicultural Urban
High School Intervention Program
Building upon previously published piloted studies conducted
by the investigators, a culturally-sensitive health education
intervention will employ quasi-experimental techniques
to evaluate the effectiveness of a 40-minute health education
session design to measure students’ knowledge, opinions,
and behaviors related to the organ donation/transplantation
process. This classroom-based intervention is to be administered
separately in 12 Seattle area high schools selected for
their racial/ethnic and income diversity. The TransTheoretical
Model, or Stages of Change framework, will be applied
through a 33-item questionnaire self-administered to students
in randomly selected classes within each school. Indicators
of behavioral change will be tracked and measured at pre-
and post-tests periods in the treatment and control groups.
Grantee:
Upstate New York Transplant Services and State University
of New York, Buffalo, NY
Project: Model Intervention to Increase
African American Living Related and Non-Related Organ Donation
This project seeks to increase the rate of African American
living related and non-related organ donation by training
ESRD staff to educate patients and donors about living
donation and improve their attitudes toward donation and
by offering an education and support program for patients.
Grantee:
Upstate New York Transplant Services and State University
of New York, Buffalo, NY
Project: Pre-Planning Education: The
Role of Funeral Directors as Partners in Increasing Organ
and Tissue Donation
This project seeks to increase organ and tissue donation
by educating and developing better relationships with
funeral home personnel and providing educational materials
to funeral homes for distribution to clients involved
in the pre-planning process.
Fiscal
Year 2003 Grantees
Grantee:
Arizona Kidney Foundation, Phoenix, and University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
Project: Hispanic Live Organ Donation:
A Strength-Based Approach
This two-year project intends to implement a dual-featured
intervention. The investigators will develop and implement
a live organ donor media/community campaign as well as
replicate a deceased donor campaign that was implemented
in Tucson and Phoenix. The project will appeal to the
enhanced sense of family and community within the Hispanic
culture to increase the number of live and deceased donors.
Surveys and focus groups will evaluate the project’s
effectiveness.
Grantee:
Case Western Reserve University and LifeBanc Organ Procurement
Organization, Cleveland, OH
Project: Testing the Early Referral
and Request Approach (ERRA) Model
This
three-year project will test the ERRA Model to increase
solid organ donation from brain dead patients. The model
consists of hospital-tailored intervention modules plus
communication modules based upon the information needs
of family decision-makers. The intervention will target
OPO requesters, family decision-makers, and health-care
providers. The investigators will evaluate hospital barriers
to time-sensitive referrals, a health care provider’s
ability to discuss organ donation with patients’
families, and OPO requester’s ability to optimize
their approach to discussions of donation with families.
Grantee:
Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, Miami, and University
of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Project: A Model Intervention for Increasing
Intent of a New Immigrant Population (Haitians in Miami-Dade
County, Florida) to Donate Organs and Tissues
This two-year project will develop and evaluate a health
campaign intervention designed to increase intent to donate
among Haitians living in Miami-Dade County. The four-phased
intervention will look at the use and effectiveness of
a theory-driven media and community outreach campaign
to enhance intent to donate in immigrant populations.
The campaign will use native language, focus groups, and
trusted community health providers to develop culturally
tailored messages. The evaluation will help establish
replicability in other immigrant populations.
Grantee:
Life Point Organ Procurement Organization and Medical
University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Project: A Comprehensive Approach to
Organ Donation by Incorporation of Family Support Counselors
as Members of the Hospital Critical Care Team
This three-year project will develop and evaluate an intervention
that will implement a hospital-based requestor model in
which counselors will provide emotional and bereavement
support to families of patients dying in the ICU. The
intervention also will provide education on brain death
and the value of donation to families. The effectiveness
will be measured by the number of families consenting
to organ donation, counts of potential donors, and changes
in attitude and knowledge of organ donation amongst health
care providers.
Grantee:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and New York Organ Donor
Network, New York, NY
Project: Improving Organ Donation in
Chinese Communities in New York City
This three-year project will compare two types of interventions
aimed at increasing willingness to become an organ donor
among Chinese Americans. Grassroots campaigns and a paid-media
advertising campaigns will be implemented in three Chinese
neighborhoods in New York City. The investigators will
design culturally sensitive interventions that respect
local institutions, persons, and beliefs. The relative
effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the interventions
will be measured by the number of new registrants on the
organ donor registry and by survey.
Grantee:
New York Alliance for Donation, Albany, NY, and University
at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Project: A Multi-Campus Classroom Intervention
to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation
This three-year project aims to increase the number of
college students in New York who communicate their intent
to donate their organs and tissues by enrolling in the
State’s donor registry and notifying their family
of their enrollment decision. Students will participate
in a public communication course promoting organ and tissue
donation that requires them to devise and execute campus-wide
campaigns to increase declaration rates and family discussion.
The project will evaluate the impact of participation
in the course on knowledge and changes in registry enrollment.
Grantee:
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, and
University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
Project: A Culturally Sensitive Intervention
to Increase Organ Donation Registration Among Asian Pacific
Americans
This project will study the Asian Pacific American community
from three perspectives: 1) behavior, attitude, willingness,
and obstacles to organ donation; 2) receptivity to an
organ and tissue donation intervention, and 3) change
in organ and tissue donation registry sign-ups if culturally
sensitive interventions are administered. The project
will implement culturally appropriate interventions and
will evaluate their effectiveness by changes in awareness,
attitude, intent to sign a donor card, and informing family
about their decision.
Grantee:
South Dakota Lions Eye Bank, Sioux Falls, and South Dakota
State University, Brookings, SD
Project: A Culturally-Competent Intervention
to Increase Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation on South Dakota’s
Indian Reservations: A Collaborative Project by the SD Lion’s
Eye Bank and SD State University, College of Nursing
