Research Core

研究核心由两个项目组成。拟议的项目将使用一种理论驱动的方法来传播循证干预措施，以解决与两个相互关联的典型主题：肾移植和器官捐赠有关的健康差距。 我们先前证明，使用肾移植受者作为终末期肾病患者的导航器是一种有希望的方法，可以减少完成移植过程中步骤的差异。然而，导航干预是劳动密集型的，专注于单一的地理区域，并不是为了确定在等待名单放置或实际移植方面具有统计学意义的影响。减少获得肾移植的差距项目的目标是传播和确定简化导航对等待名单和移植数量的影响。 我们还证明，向俄亥俄州机动车管理局的赞助人展示一段简短的视频，解决少数族裔对器官捐赠的担忧，会增加驾照上器官捐赠的同意程度。然而，将视频单独管理给机动车管理局的顾客是劳动密集型的，而且我们的试验仅限于一个地理区域。传播增加器官捐献视频干预项目的目的是传播和确定一个简短的在线视频干预对大学生器官捐赠意愿的影响。

The Research Core consists of two projects. The proposed projects will use a theory-driven approach to disseminate evidence-based interventions to address health disparities related to two inter-related and prototypical topics: kidney transplantation and organ donation. We previously demonstrated that using kidney transplant recipients as navigators for end stage renal disease patients is a promising approach to reduce disparities in completion of steps in the transplant process. However, the navigation intervention was labor intensive, focused on a single geographic area, and was not designed to determine a statistically significant effect on waiting list placement or actual transplantation. The goal of the Reducing Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation project is to disseminate and determine the impact of streamlined navigation on wait listing and number of transplants. We also demonstrated that showing patrons of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles a brief video that addresses minorities' concerns about organ donation results in increased consent for organ donation on driver's licenses. However, individually administering the video to patrons at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles was labor intensive, and our trial was limited to a single geographic area. The goal of the Dissemination of a Video Intervention to Increase Organ Donation project is to disseminate and determine the impact of a brief online video intervention on willingness to donate organs among college students.