Leading the Flock: Organ Donation Feelings, Beliefs, and Intentions among African American Clergy and Community Residents
| Autor: | Kimberly D. Davis, Roger Durand, Bryanne Zucha, Samuel M. Holtzman, Phillip J. Decker, Lamon Atkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male Religion and Psychology Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Tissue and Organ Procurement Urban Population media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Emotions Declaration Pastoral Care Context (language use) Intention 030230 surgery Thinking 03 medical and health sciences Professional Role 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Pastoral care Humans Medicine Organ donation media_common Transplantation business.industry Religion and Medicine 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Focus Groups Religious denomination Texas Focus group Black or African American Cross-Sectional Studies Protestantism Feeling Donation Female Clergy business Attitude to Health Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Progress in Transplantation. 15:211-216 |
| ISSN: | 2164-6708 1526-9248 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/152692480501500303 |
| Popis: | Context Despite a considerable potential role in organ donation for African American clergy, there has been little investigation to date of the beliefs, attitudes, and personal intentions of such clergy regarding donation. Objective To compare the beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation among African American clergy to those of African American residents of the same large US city. Design Focus groups and 3 cross-sectional surveys. Setting Greater Houston, Tex, metropolitan area. Participants A total of 761 randomly selected African American community residents and 311 African American clergy. Main Outcomes Measures Beliefs about the importance of organ donation; how comfortable one is in thinking about donation; whether one believes that organ donation is against one's religion; trust in healthcare professionals regarding death declaration; concerns that donation leads to body mutilation; and the likelihood that one will donate one's own organs upon death. Results Compared to general African American residents, African American clergy in the Houston area were found more often to believe in the importance of donation; to be more comfortable with thinking about donation; to feel more certain that donation was not against their religion; to believe that they could trust healthcare professionals regarding death declaration; to feel less often that donation leads to mutilation of the body; and to indicate a greater likelihood of donating their own organs upon death. The same was found to be true among clergy and congregants of the largest religious denomination in Houston, the Baptists. |
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