Understanding Family Refusal

Completed

• Conditions: Brain Death; Renal Failure

• Registration Number: NCT04303624
• Lead Sponsor: Yale-NUS College

Brief Summary

The investigators plan a secondary data analysis of an existing dataset to examine how individual decision-making differs from family decision-making in organ donation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-31
• Study Completion: 2019-03-31
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Study First Submitted: 2020-03-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-03-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-08
• Study First Posted: 2020-03-11
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 1007

Inclusion Criteria

• Citizens or permanent residents of Singapore
• Above 21

Exclusion Criteria

• Below 21

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Willingness to donate	Single measurement (time of taking the survey)	Participants indicated their willingness to donate their own organs and those of a close family member

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Confidence in family decision-making	Single measurement (time of taking the survey)	Participants rated how confident they were that - upon their family member's death - they would respect their family member's views regarding donation rated using 5-point scales anchored on one end with 1="Not confident at all" and 5="Absolutely confident").