Publications by authors named "Nathaniel D Porter"
Article Synopsis
- People are less likely to donate a kidney to friends and coworkers than to close family like parents and children.
- The study found that different races, ethnicities, and genders show varied willingness to donate, with some groups being more generous to certain relationships.
- Older people tended to be less willing to donate to anyone other than their parents.
Social network interventions to reduce race disparities in living kidney donation: Design and rationale of the friends and family of kidney transplant patients study (FFKTPS).
Clin Transplant
October 2023
Article Synopsis
- There's a problem with racial and ethnic differences in who can get kidney transplants from living donors, and we want to understand why.
- The Friends and Family of Kidney Transplant Patients Study is trying to help by encouraging discussions about kidney donation among friends and family of patients.
- The study will look at how effective these discussions are and collect information about patients’ social networks to help improve living donor kidney transplants in the future.
Mental wellness is a critical component of healthy development in emerging adulthood and serves to protect against stress and promote resilience against psychopathology. Emotion regulation is a key mechanism for effective prevention because of its role in socio-emotional competence and its transdiagnostic significance for psychopathology. In this feasibility study, a brief, time and cost-effective emotion regulation training program for emerging adults (BERT) was developed and tested using the RE-AIM framework.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProponents of big data claim it will fuel a social research revolution, but skeptics challenge its reliability and decontextualization. The largest subset of big data is not designed for social research. Data augmentation-systematic assessment of measurement against known quantities and expansion of extant data with new information-is an important tool to maximize such data's validity and research value.
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