Evaluating Attitudes Towards Organ Donation
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Individual Difference
- Sponsor
- Yale-NUS College
- Enrollment
- 211
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Binary survey item - Decision to Donate Organ
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The study is conducted to investigate the effects of priming different cultural orientations on participants' decisions on whether to donate their organs, in an opt-out donation system scenario where the default is a presumed consent on the part of the individual.
Detailed Description
Participants complete a survey where they respond to scales measuring their baseline cultural and power distance orientations, and answer questions on their demographics such as gender, race, employment etc. 24 hours later, participants fill in a 2nd survey where they are instructed to complete 1 out of 2 possible priming tasks. The possible tasks consist of an Individualistic priming condition and a Collectivistic priming condition; both tasks require participants to answer 3 statements each to 3 questions regarding the self or their social group. Participants then indicate their choice on whether to donate their organs (default or opt-out), rate their confidence regarding their choice and complete the same scales measuring their cultural and power distance orientations.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Aged 21 and above
- •Lives in the United States of America
Exclusion Criteria
- •Below age 21
- •Does not live in the United States of America
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Binary survey item - Decision to Donate Organ
Time Frame: 1 minute
From a scenario where participants imagine themselves applying for a driver's license in a country where an opt-out organ donation system is enforced, participants are asked to make a binary choice between choosing to donate their organs (default) and choosing not to donate their organs (opt out).
Line scale survey item - Confidence in Decision to Donate Organ
Time Frame: 1 minute
Participants are asked to mark along a line scale on how confident they feel about their decision to donate their organs. The extreme ends of the line scale are defined as "Not Confident At All" (0) and "Extremely Confident" (100).
Secondary Outcomes
- Individual levels of individualism & collectivism(5 minutes)
- Individual levels of power distance(3 minutes)