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Article: Leading the flock: organ donation feelings, beliefs, and intentions among African American clergy and community residents
- Article from:
- Progress in Transplantation
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
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Context-Despite a considerable potential role in organ donation for African American clergy, there has been little investigation to date of the beliefs, attitudes, and personal intentions of such clergy regarding donation.
Objective-To compare the beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation among African American clergy to those of African American residents of the same large US city.
Design-Focus groups and 3 cross-sectional surveys.
Setting-Greater Houston, Tex, metropolitan area.
Participants-A total of 761 randomly selected African American community residents and 311 African American clergy.
Main Outcomes Measures-Beliefs about the importance of organ ...