How Organ Donors are Different from Non-donors: Responsibility, Barriers, and Religious Involvement

To see if religious involvement, previously linked to various health behaviors, was linked to organ donation, 143 ethnically diverse undergraduates stated whether they were registered donors (53 % were), and completed measures of organ donation attitudes and religious involvement. Compared with non-...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:  
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Range, Lillian M. (Auteur)
Collaborateurs: Brazda, Geoffrey F. (Autre)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
En cours de chargement...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publié: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2015]
Dans: Journal of religion and health
Année: 2015, Volume: 54, Numéro: 6, Pages: 2286-2291
Sujets non-standardisés:B religious involvement
B Religion
B Organ Donation
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)
Description
Résumé:To see if religious involvement, previously linked to various health behaviors, was linked to organ donation, 143 ethnically diverse undergraduates stated whether they were registered donors (53 % were), and completed measures of organ donation attitudes and religious involvement. Compared with non-donors, donors reported fewer barriers, more family responsibility, and more willingness to receive donor organs, but were not different in religious involvement. Even in 2014, when being a “good Samaritan” by agreeing to organ donation is as easy as checking one box on a driver’s license application, religious involvement does not seem to be a factor in checking this box.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9982-4