Blood Donor Drives & High School Students to Educate People About Organ Donation

描述（由申请人提供）：器官移植的主要限制因素是可用器官不足。可用器官的短缺对非洲裔美国人来说尤其严重，西班牙裔美国人的情况也较轻。献血者是一个天生的利他主义群体，但没有研究表明献血者是否会比非献血者更愿意签约成为器官捐献者。几乎所有的血库现在都在高中进行献血活动，在圣地亚哥，21%捐赠给圣地亚哥血库的血液来自高中献血活动。这些活动由高中生在血库官员的协助和监督下组织和进行。我们建议让高中生要求献血者和非献血者签署加州机动车部器官捐献计划，这可以快速方便地在网上完成。我们将在非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人比例较高的高中和社区进行研究。我们的主要假设是，献血者比非献血者更愿意签署献血协议。在被要求签署成为器官捐献者后，参与的受试者将参加由一名高中生领导的简短的10分钟关于器官捐献的教育课程。然后，受试者将再次被要求作为器官捐赠者签字。我们的次要假设是，教育课程将增加将签署作为器官捐献者的受试者的数量，并且献血者的效果将大于非献血者。教材将具有文化敏感性，因为它们将由一个由三至五名学生组成的小组编写，其中至少包括一名非洲裔美国人和一名西班牙裔学生。如果这项计划成功，它可以很容易地在美国各地广泛传播，我们证明，它可以显着增加非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人捐赠的器官数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The main limiting factor for organ transplantation is a deficiency of available organs. The shortage of available organs is especially severe for African-Americans, and to a lesser extent Hispanics. Blood donors are an inherently altruistic group, but no studies have addressed whether blood donors would be more willing to sign on as organ donors than non- blood donors. Almost all blood banks now conduct blood drives in high schools, and, in San Diego, 21% of blood donated to the San Diego Blood Bank comes from high school blood drives. These drives are organized and conducted by high school students, with assistance and supervision by blood bank officials. We propose to have high school students ask blood donors and non-blood donors to sign on to the California Department of Motor Vehicles organ donor program, which can be done quickly and easily on-line. We will conduct the study in high schools and communities that have a high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics. Our primary hypothesis is that blood donors will be more willing to sign on as blood donors than non-blood donors. After being asked to sign on as an organ donor, participating subjects will partake in a short 10 minute educational session about organ donation led by a high school student. The subjects will then again be asked to sign on as an organ donor. Our secondary hypotheses are that the educational session will increase the number of subjects who will sign on as an organ donor, and that the effect will be greater in blood donors than non-blood donors. The educational materials will be culturally sensitive, as they will be developed by a team of three to five students that will include at least one African-American and one Hispanic student. If this program is successful, it could easily be disseminated widely throughout the United States, and we demonstrate that it could increase markedly the number of organs donated by African-Americans and Hispanics.