Cultural influences on willingness to donate organs among urban native Americans.

Background: The need for organ donation is substantial among Native Americans, driven by the disproportionate burden of ESRD. Due to the dearth of knowledge about willingness to donate (WTD) among urban Native Americans, a group that represents over half of the US Native population, we aimed to examine factors affecting donation.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample, using a questionnaire developed specifically for this study using community-based participatory research.

Multicenter investigation of the reliability and validity of the live donor assessment tool as an enhancement to the psychosocial evaluation of living donors.

The live donor assessment tool (LDAT) is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor psychosocial evaluations. A multicenter study was conducted to explore reliability and validity of the LDAT and determine its ability to enhance the psychosocial evaluation beyond its center of origin. Four transplant programs participated, each with their own team of evaluators and unique demographics.

Asian American adolescents' willingness to donate organs and engage in family discussion about organ donation and transplantation.

Context: Despite the growing need for organ donation among Asian Americans, studies suggest that they are reluctant to donate.

Objective: To examine the association of attitudes and knowledge about organ donation and transplantation with willingness to donate and willingness to engage in family discussion about organ donation among Asian American adolescents.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Collaborative use of the peer assist model in large transplant programs in the United States.

Context: The basic assumption of the peer assist model is that nearly every transplant center is already doing something that other centers could adopt in order to streamline or enhance their own operations.

Objective: To describe how the Transplant Growth and Management Collaborative used the peer assist model with 2 large transplant centers in the United States and to identify best practices and outcomes.

Setting: The University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center.

A systematic review of the effectiveness of peer-based interventions on health-related behaviors in adults.

We reviewed 25 randomized clinical trials that assessed the effect of peer-based interventions on health-related behaviors in adults. Effect sizes were calculated as odds ratios or standardized mean differences. We grouped most of the studies by 7 measured outcomes, with effect sizes ranging from -0.