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Article: How African Americans express their intentions to be organ donors
- Article from:
- Progress in Transplantation
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Copyright informationCopyright North American Transplant Coordinators Organization Dec 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Context-As part of an organ sharing network's outreach, African American adults were interviewed to assess their awareness of the network's efforts and willingness to donate their organs after death.
Objective-To describe (1) the proportion who expressed their intentions to be an organ donor, (2) the means they had used, and (3) sociodemographic characteristics of the participants who used a particular means.
Design-A repeated, cross-sectional, random-digit dialing telephone interview was conducted from July 2005 (start of wave 1) to April 2006 (end of wave 3). Each interview averaged 7 minutes and consisted of 60 items.
Setting-Trained interviewers placed telephone calls to the residences ...