Blood Donor Drives & High School Students to Educate People About Organ Donation

献血活动

• 批准号: 8720768
• 负责人: GERRY R BOSS
• 金额: $ 14.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-30 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8720768
• 关键词: Acute; Address; African American; Award; Blood; Blood Banks; Blood donor; Blood typing procedure; California; Clip; Communities; Community Outreach; Community Services; Data; Education; Educational Materials; Enrollment; Frequencies; Grant; HLA Antigens; High School Student; Hispanics; Human Resources; Kidney; Kidney Transplantation; Liver; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Motor Vehicles; Organ; Organ Donations; Organ Donor; Organ Transplantation; Pamphlets; Population Study; Schools; Secondary to; Students; Supervision; Target Populations; Testing; Time; Tissue Transplantation; Training; Training Programs; Transplantation; Transplanted tissue; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; high school; interest; liver transplantation; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; science education

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The main limiting factor for organ transplantation is a deficiency of available organs. The shortage of available organs is especially severe for African-Americans, and to a lesser extent Hispanics. Blood donors are an inherently altruistic group, but no studies have addressed whether blood donors would be more willing to sign on as organ donors than non- blood donors. Almost all blood banks now conduct blood drives in high schools, and, in San Diego, 21% of blood donated to the San Diego Blood Bank comes from high school blood drives. These drives are organized and conducted by high school students, with assistance and supervision by blood bank officials. We propose to have high school students ask blood donors and non-blood donors to sign on to the California Department of Motor Vehicles organ donor program, which can be done quickly and easily on-line. We will conduct the study in high schools and communities that have a high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics. Our primary hypothesis is that blood donors will be more willing to sign on as blood donors than non-blood donors. After being asked to sign on as an organ donor, participating subjects will partake in a short 10 minute educational session about organ donation led by a high school student. The subjects will then again be asked to sign on as an organ donor. Our secondary hypotheses are that the educational session will increase the number of subjects who will sign on as an organ donor, and that the effect will be greater in blood donors than non-blood donors. The educational materials will be culturally sensitive, as they will be developed by a team of three to five students that will include at least one African-American and one Hispanic student. If this program is successful, it could easily be disseminated widely throughout the United States, and we demonstrate that it could increase markedly the number of organs donated by African-Americans and Hispanics.

描述（申请人提供）：器官移植的主要限制因素是可用器官的缺乏。对于非裔美国人来说，可用器官的短缺尤其严重，西班牙裔美国人的情况也更严重。献血者本质上是一个利他主义群体，但没有研究表明献血者是否比非献血者更愿意成为器官捐献者。现在几乎所有血库都在高中开展献血活动，在圣地亚哥，捐献给圣地亚哥血库的血液中有 21% 来自高中献血活动。这些活动由高中生在血库官员的协助和监督下组织和进行。我们建议高中生要求献血者和非献血者加入加州机动车辆管理局器官捐献计划，该计划可以在网上快速轻松地完成。我们将在非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人比例较高的高中和社区进行这项研究。我们的主要假设是，献血者比非献血者更愿意成为献血者。在被要求作为器官捐献者签字后，参与的受试者将参加由一名高中生主持的简短的 10 分钟有关器官捐献的教育课程。然后，受试者将再次被要求作为器官捐献者签字。我们的次要假设是，教育课程将增加注册成为器官捐献者的受试者数量，并且对献血者的影响将比非献血者更大。教育材料将具有文化敏感性，因为它们将由三到五名学生组成的团队开发，其中至少包括一名非裔美国人和一名西班牙裔学生。如果该计划成功，它可以很容易地在整个美国广泛传播，并且我们证明它可以显着增加非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人捐赠的器官数量。