RCT- Comparing Testimonial Versus Documentary Organ Donation Video Education

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Organ Donation

Treatments: Behavioral: Unresolved Ending; Behavioral: Control ending - Uplifting; Behavioral: Negative Consequences Ending

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02836301

16-00454

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators will evaluate organ donation educational videos with a 2x3 single blinded Randomized Control Trial (RCT) in partnership with our 26 Latino Owned Barbershops (LOBs). The testimonial video about Uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (uDCDD) with an uplifting ending will serve as control. Experimental videos may include live uDCDD footage, differing endings, or combinations. Video production will be informed by the entertainment education model and produced with experts including an Academy Award winning filmmaker. The primary outcome is whether participants immediately enroll in the NY State Organ Donor Registry (either online or by our RA mailing in the official form with prepaid postage). Investigators hypothesize that each video will induce differences in registration compared to the control and that there is an interaction effect with video genre and story outcome.

Enrollment: 1,440 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Dominican and Puerto Rican Latinos.
• Participants who pefer to speak Spanish.
• Participants who reside locally in NYC, New Jersey, or Connecticut, (tri-state area) for at least four weeks (28 days) in a year.
• Participants able to understand the verbal consent process.

Exclusion criteria

• Persons who are visually impaired and are unable to watch the videos.
• Persons who are hearing impaired and are unable to hear the audio on the videos.
• Persons who are cognitively impaired and thus are unable to provide consent to register for organ donation by signing the New York State Organ Donor Registry application.
• Persons who self-report to be registered in the New York State Organ Donor Registry.
• Persons who previously are enrolled in this randomized controlled trial.
• Persons psychologically unfit or who refuse.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,440 participants in 6 patient groups

Testimonials-Uplifting

Active Comparator group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control ending - Uplifting

Testimonials-Negative

Active Comparator group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Negative Consequences Ending

Testimonials-Unresolved

Active Comparator group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unresolved Ending

Documentary-Uplifting

Experimental group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control ending - Uplifting

Documentary-Negative

Experimental group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Negative Consequences Ending

Documentary-Unresolved

Experimental group

Description:

2x3 matrix for the RCT comparing the control genre of only testimonials (G0) versus the experimental genre (G1) of a documentary with live footage along with the testimonials. The story ending (E) will serve as the cofactor.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Unresolved Ending