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Knowledge regarding organ donation: identifying and overcoming barriers to organ donation.

Raymond L. Horton, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1990 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 7, pp 791-800
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Knowledge of organ donation facts was found to be related to whether subjects carried or requested an organ donor card, their attitude towards organ donation and their willingness to donate their own organs or the organs of a deceased loved one.
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organ donation & Tissue Donation.

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Psychological aspects of organ donation : a critical review and synthesis of individual and next-of-kin donation decisions

TL;DR: A critical review of psychological perspectives on organ donation considers individual decisions to donate organs posthumously and next-of-kin consent decisions and theoretical analysis of intention to donate is presented.
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Communicating about gifts of life: The effect of knowledge, attitudes, and altruism on behavior and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation

TL;DR: The results of a mail survey of 798 adults suggest that attitudes toward donation, knowledge about organ donation, altruism, and perceived social norms are significantly associated with both actual behavior and behavioral intent to sign a card in the future.
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Beyond the organ donor card: the effect of knowledge, attitudes, and values on willingness to communicate about organ donation to family members.

TL;DR: It is concluded that campaigns seeking to promote communication between family members about organ donation must simultaneously seek to increase knowledge, debunk myths, and bolster positive attitudes about donation.
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A model of willingness to become a potential organ donor.

TL;DR: This article presents two models of the decision to become a potential organ donor, where the act of carrying or requesting an organ donor card is related to values and factual knowledge regarding organ donation, through intervening attitude and willingness constructs.
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The Power of Narratives: The Effect of Entertainment Television Organ Donation Storylines on the Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Donors and Nondonors

TL;DR: Viewers who were not organ donors prior to exposure to the dramas were more likely to decide to donate organs if the drama explicitly encouraged donation, portrayed characters revealing how they had become donors and discussed the merits of donating.
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Practical Nonparametric Statistics

W. J. Conover
TL;DR: Probability Theory. Statistical Inference. Contingency Tables. Appendix Tables. Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises and Answers to Answers to Answer Questions as discussed by the authors.
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The nature of human values

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The Nature of Human Values.

Helen Gouldner, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1975 - 
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Central and Peripheral Routes to Advertising Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Involvement

TL;DR: This article found that manipulation of argument quality had a greater impact on attitudes under high than low involvement, but the manipulation of product endorser had a higher impact under low than high involvement.
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