Understanding Organ Donation

This highly important book introduces the realm of organ donation, providing an overview of the current situation, highlighting the challenges, summarizing past research, and providing guidance for future research.

• The first book to bridge the gap between applied research and the social and behavioral issues surrounding organ donation

• An impressive collection of contributors from a range of both practitioners and scientists actively working in the field

• Provides a concrete example of how evidence-based research and theory can be applied with real-world value

• Explores future directions of organ donation and research including community-based health interventions, ethical considerations, and advancing donor registration

• The latest publication in the prestigious Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series

Auteur
Jason T. Siegel is part of the Research Faculty at Claremont Graduate University's School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences. Dr. Siegel, Co-director of the Institute of Health Psychology and Prevention Science, has been researching organ-donation-related behavior for nearly a decade. Eusebio M. Alvaro is a Research Faculty member at Claremont Graduate University's School of Behavioral and Organizational Science where he is Co-Director of the Institute of Health Psychology and Prevention Science. He is a behavioral scientist conducting research on overcoming resistance to health behavior change.

Texte du rabat
The worldwide need for transplantable organs continues to increase. Over 100,000 people are on the waiting list in America alone. This groundbreaking book introduces the realm of organ donation and provides wide-ranging examples of successful theory-based interventions across real-world situations. With contributions from scholars and professionals actively working in this field, and reporting on the very latest developments, this volume provides a concrete example of how evidence-based, translational research functions in a real-world nascent field, with life or death outcomes.

Understanding Organ Donation is an invaluable resource for organ donor professionals, applied social psychologists, health psychologists, and policy-makers, as well as professors and students in health communication who are interested in theory-based research in real-world contexts.

Contenu

List of Contributors x

Preface xiv
Jason T. Siegel and Eusebio M. Alvaro

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction and Overview 1

Chapter 1: Applying Psychology to Health Behavior Interventions: Not Last Decade's Approach 3
Stuart Oskamp

Chapter 2: Organ Donation: An Overview of the Field 13
Mary Ganikos

Part I: Media and Community Interventions 41

Chapter 3: Where Have We Been and Where to Next: A Review and Synthesis of Organ Donation Media Campaigns 43
Eusebio M. Alvaro and Jason T. Siegel

Chapter 4: The Effectiveness of the Donate LifeAfrican American Campaign in MinneapolisSt. Paul 64
David M. Radosevich, Susan Mau Larson, Tiffany Scott, Clarence Jones, William Tendle, and Susan Gunderson

Chapter 5: Organ Donation and Transplantation: A New Tradition of Sharing for Alaska Natives 83
Margaret D. Allen and Barbara Stillwater

Chapter 6: First-Person Consent Ohio Donor Registry: The Influence of the First-Person Consent Registry on Increasing Organ Donation 98
Kimberly Downing and Linda Jones

Chapter 7: Improving Organ Donation in Chinese Communities in New York: Perspectives From Consortium Partners 119
Paul L. Hebert, Julia Rivera, Kelly Eng, Regina Lee, and Susan Seto-Yee

Chapter 8: Intervention Research With American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations Communities: An Organ and Tissue Donation Exemplar 132
Nancy L. Fahrenwald

Part II: Organizational Interventions 149

Chapter 9: Behavioral Research in Hospital Settings: The Family Communication Coordinator (FCC) Protocol and Research Applications in Organ Donation 151
Diane Dodd-McCue

Chapter 10: Design and Evaluation of Work Site Promotions of Organ Donation: Real-World Challenges and Strategies to Address Them 164
Michael T. Quinn, Jackie Gnepp, G. Caleb Alexander, Diane Hollingsworth, Kate Grubbs O'Connor, Willa Lang, Joshua Klayman, and David Meltzer

Chapter 11: Home Care Association of Louisiana (HCLA) Donate Life Workplace Partnership for Organ and Tissue Donation 177
Carolyn C. Johnson and Larry S. Webber

Chapter 12: Promoting Organ Donation Through College Student Campaigns 200
Thomas Hugh Feeley, Ashley E. Anker, Donald E. Vincent, and Carla R. Williams

Chapter 13: Take Time to Talk: Improving Communication Between Recovery Professionals and Funeral Directors 221
Catherine Paykin, Gigi Politoski, and Linda Singleton-Driscoll

Chapter 14: The Challenges of Conducting and Evaluating Organ Donation Campaigns 234
Susan E. Morgan

Part III: Broad Perspectives and Future Directions 247

Chapter 15: Community Organizations and Applied Research: Project Initiation, Implementation, and Dealing With Those Applied Researchers 249
Sara Pace Jones and David Bosch

Chapter 16: Evaluating the Effects of Community-Based Health Interventions: Seeking Impact and Saving Lives via Organ and Tissue Donation Promotion Efforts 257
Robert L. Fischer

Chapter 17: The Value of Qualitative Studies of Interpersonal Conversations About Health Topics: A Study of Family Discussions of Organ Donation and Illustrations 272
Anita Pomerantz

Chapter 18: Ethically and Effectively Advancing Living Donation: How Should It Be Done? 292
Amy D. Waterman and James R. Rodrigue

Chapter 19: A Dawning Recognition of Factors for Increasing Donor Registration: The IIFF Model 313
Jason T. Siegel, Eusebio M. Alvaro, and Zachary P. Hohman

Chapter 20: There's Nothing So Practical . . . Theoretical Translations and Organ Donation 331
William D. Crano

Author index 344

Subject index 353