The effectiveness of an interactive organ donation education intervention for Dutch lower-educated students: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Organ donation registration rates remain low, especially among people with lower educational levels. An interactive educational intervention was developed to prepare lower-educated students in the Netherlands for making a well-informed decision about organ donation. This article reports on the effects of this intervention on the intention to register (i.e., the primary outcome in the study at hand) and beliefs regarding organ donation. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The effectiveness was investigated in a post-test-only cluster randomized controlled trial, in which the intervention was offered to the experimental group and after measurement also to the control group. Randomization to the experimental and control groups took place at a class level. Teachers of schools for Intermediate Voc

SUBMITTER: Steenaart E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6873467 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature