Evaluating Attitudes Towards Organ Donation in the United States on MTurk

Yale-NUS College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Individual Difference

Treatments: Behavioral: Online Individualistic Prime (statement writing); Behavioral: Online Collectivistic Prime (statement writing)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04308746

HSS-1502-P02-07

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is conducted to investigate the effects of priming different cultural orientations on participants' decisions on whether to donate their organs, in an opt-out donation system scenario where the default is a presumed consent on the part of the individual.

Full description

Participants complete a survey where they respond to scales measuring their baseline cultural and power distance orientations, and answer questions on their demographics such as gender, race, employment etc.

24 hours later, participants fill in a 2nd survey where they are instructed to complete 1 out of 2 possible priming tasks. The possible tasks consist of an Individualistic priming condition and a Collectivistic priming condition; both tasks require participants to answer 3 statements each to 3 questions regarding the self or their social group. Participants then indicate their choice on whether to donate their organs (default or opt-out), rate their confidence regarding their choice and complete the same scales measuring their cultural and power distance orientations.

Enrollment: 211 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 21 and above
• Lives in the United States of America

Exclusion criteria

• Below age 21
• Does not live in the United States of America

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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211 participants in 2 patient groups

Individualistic

Experimental group

Description:

Participants write 3 statements to 3 questions relating to his/her differences from his/her immediate community

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online Individualistic Prime (statement writing)

Collectivistic

Experimental group

Description:

Participants write 3 statements to 3 questions relating to his/her similarities with his/her immediate community

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online Collectivistic Prime (statement writing)