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Article: Effects of information, education, and communication training about organ donation for gatekeepers: clerks at the Department of Motor Vehicles and organ donor registries
- Article from:
- Progress in Transplantation
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright North American Transplant Coordinators Organization Dec 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Context-Clerks at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) serve as gatekeepers in the quest to fill organ donor registries. Most people who join organ donor registries do so through their local driver's license bureau.
Objective-To improve knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward organ donation among DMV clerks, and to improve strategies for communicating with the public about organ donation, resulting in more people joining DMV-based organ donor registries.
Setting-DMV offices in 8 counties in a southern state.
Participants-A general survey of 1504 participants in 8 counties was conducted to assess knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward organ donation. All 76 DMV clerks in ...