"Tribes sharing life": an organ donation educational intervention for American Indian tribal college and university students.

"Tribes Sharing Life" is an educational intervention about deceased organ donation for American Indian Tribal College and University (TCU) students. The classroom and web-based program was derived from cultural values and beliefs, and the Transtheoretical Model. The aim of this study was to develop and formatively evaluate the intervention for acceptability and satisfaction among advisory council members (n = 10) and TCU students (n = 22).

Sharing the gift of life: an intervention to increase organ and tissue donation for American Indians.

Context: Growing waiting lists for organ transplantation require attention to populations with a high demand for organs but a low donation rate. American Indians experience a high demand for kidney transplantation because of an epidemic of type 2 diabetes, yet donation consent rates are low in this group.

Objective: To design and evaluate an educational intervention to increase the intention to serve as an organ or tissue donor among American Indians.