Clive O. Callender

TL;DR: Perceived stress was associated with haphazard planning and emotional eating, but not related to other high fat eating domains in the overall sample, and held for overweight and obese participants with the addition of snacking on sweets.

TL;DR: Public education should: a) stress the need for family communication about end‐of‐life issues including organ donation; b) underline the fact that donation is considered only after all efforts to save the life of the patient are exhausted; and c) reassure minorities that the body of the donor is treated respectfully and not disfigured.

TL;DR: The past decade has witnessed an inexorable widening in the gap between the supply of organs for transplantation and the need for organs on the part of desperately ill candidates for transplants, and the scarcity of organs has become the chief limiting factor in clinical transplantation.

TL;DR: A research program designed to determine the nature of attitudes of blacks toward kidney donations was developed disclosed a lack of knowledge about kidney transplantation; disassociation and lack of communication between blacks and the medical community; religious fears; fears of premature death; and racism.

TL;DR: Sustained changes in behavioral intentions toward organ donation and illness prevention may require multiple educational interventions in different community settings to increase donation rates and improve behavioral health practices to prevent illness.