Research Core

核心研究包括两个项目。拟议的项目将采用理论驱动的方法，传播循证干预措施，以解决与两个相互关联和典型主题有关的健康差距：肾移植和器官捐赠。 我们之前证明，使用肾移植受者作为终末期肾病患者的导航员是一种有前途的方法，可以减少移植过程中完成步骤的差异。然而，导航干预是劳动密集型的，集中在一个单一的地理区域，并没有被设计来确定一个统计学上的显着影响等待名单的位置或实际移植。减少肾移植机会差异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顾客展示一段简短的视频，以解决少数族裔对器官捐赠的担忧，从而增加了对驾驶执照上器官捐赠的同意。然而，在机动车辆管理局向顾客单独管理视频是劳动密集型的，我们的试验仅限于一个地理区域。传播视频干预以增加器官捐赠项目的目标是传播和确定简短的在线视频干预对大学生捐赠器官意愿的影响。

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.