Effects of a Video on Organ Donation Consent Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low organ donation rates remain a major barrier to organ transplantation.

Objective

We aimed to determine the effect of a video and patient cueing on organ donation consent among patients meeting with their primary care provider.

Design

This was a randomized controlled trial between February 2013 and May 2014.

Setting

The waiting rooms of 18 primary care clinics of a medical system in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Patients

The study included 915 patients over 15.5 years of age who had not previously consented to organ donation.

Interventions

Just prior to their clinical encounter, intervention patients (n = 456) watched a 5-minute organ donation video on iPads and then choose a question regarding organ donation to ask their provider. Control p

SUBMITTER: Thornton JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945548 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature