COMMUNITY-BASED PLAN TO INCREASE MINORITY ORGAN DONATION

美国肾移植等候名单的一半是由以下人员组成的： 少数民族患者然而，部分由于血型和HLA 频率，非洲裔美国人必须等待l年，亚洲人6个月 比白种人更长的时间一种解决方案是 增加器官捐献和活体移植， 少数群体。这项赠款利用了一个独特的社区为基础的 外展网络提供器官捐赠资讯， 移植到非洲裔美国人和亚洲社区， 西雅图和塔科马。该补助金资助制作一个教育 适合社区和教室的录像，以当地少数民族为特色 移植接受者此外，针对以下对象的公益广告 由本地少数民族学生制作的《少数民族》，将于 机动车办公室。教学计划将 在当地学校设立。将分发教育材料 在当地社区和教堂的VISTA志愿者，当地 从目标非裔美国人和亚洲人中招募的居民 社区.邻里VISTA志愿者将获得工作经验 并获得高等教育的学分。计算机化数据库 社区居民将被创建以记录捐赠 偏好，教育水平和医疗历史，数据， 可以用于未来对这些社区的流行病学研究。 这项教育计划的效果将通过调查来衡量 关于对捐赠的态度，由华盛顿州器官捐赠卡 登记处，并按种族的实际捐赠和移植率。这 该计划是社区领导发展的典范， 提供可应用于其他领域的医疗保健信息 医疗保健问题。

Fully half of the U.S. renal transplant waiting list is composed of minority patients. Yet, due in part to blood group and HLA frequencies, African-Americans must wait l year, and Asians 6 months longer than Caucasians for a donated kidney. One solution is to increase organ donation and living-related transplantation among minority groups. This grant utilizes a unique community-based outreach network to deliver information on organ donation and transplantation to the African-American and Asian communities in Seattle and Tacoma. The grant funds the production of an educational video suitable for community and classroom featuring local minority transplant recipients. Also, public service announcements targeting minorities, produced by local minority students, will be shown at the Department of Motor Vehicles offices. A program of instruction will be instituted in local schools. Educational materials will be distributed in local neighborhoods and churches by VISTA volunteers, local residents recruited from the targeted African-American and Asian communities. Neighborhood VISTA volunteers will gain job experience and receive credits toward higher education. A computerized database of community residents will be created to record donation preferences, educational level attained, and medicai histories, data that could be used in future epidemiologic studies on these communities. The efficacy of this educational program will be measured by surveys on attitudes toward donation, by a Washington state organ donor card registry, and by actual donation and transplantation rates by race. This program is a model for community leadership in the development and delivery of health care information which could be applied to other health care issues.