Family discussions about organ donation: How the media influences opinions about donation decisions

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 674-682

  Morgan, Susan E ^a   Harrison, Tyler R ^a   Long, Shawn D ^b   Afifi, Walid A ^c   Stephenson, Michael S ^d   Reichert, Tom ^e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Media; Organ donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABORATORY; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ORGAN DONOR; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRANSFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MASS MEDIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25144450900     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00407.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Gallup Organization. The U.S. Public's Attitudes toward Organ Transplants/Donation. Princeton, NJ: Gallup Organization, 1993.
2. Morgan SE, Miller J. Beyond the organ donor card: the effect of knowledge, attitudes, and values on willingness to communicate about organ donation to family members. Health Commun 2002: 14: 121.
3. Morgan SE. The power of talk: African-Americans' communication with family members and its impact on the willingness to donate organs. J Personal Soc Rel 2004: 21: 117.
4. Maloney G, Walker I. Talking about transplants: social representations and the dialectical, dilemmatic nature of organ donation and transplantation. Br J Soc Psychol 2002: 41: 299.
5. Maloney G, Walker I. Messiahs, pariahs, and donors: the development of social representations of organ transplants. J Theory Soc Behav 2000: 30: 203.
6. Matesanz R. Organ donation, transplantation, and mass media. Transplant Proc 2002: 35: 987.
7. Morgan SE, Miller J, Arasaratnam LA. Signing cards, saving lives: an evaluation of the Worksite Organ Donation Promotion Project. Commun Monogr 2002: 69: 253.
8. Fishbein M. Ajzen I. Belief, Attitude, Intention, and Behavior: An Introduction to Theory and Research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1975.
9. Afifi WA, Weiner J. Toward a theory of motivated information management. Commun Theory 2004: 14: 167.
10. Horton RL, Horton PJ. A model of willingness to become a potential organ donor. Soc Sci Med 1991: 33: 1037.
11. Morgan SE, Cannon T. African Americans' knowledge about organ donation: closing the gap with more effective persuasive message strategies. J Natl Med Assoc 2003: 95: 1066.
12. Morgan SE, Miller JK, Arasaratnam LA. Similarities and differences between African-Americans' and European-Americans' attitudes, knowledge and willingness to communicate about organ donation. J Appl Soc Psychol 2003: 33: 693.
13. Morgan SE, Miller J. Communicating about gifts of life: the effect of knowledge, attitudes, and altruism on behavior and behavioral intentions regarding organ donation. J Appl Comm Res 2002: 30: 163.
14. Hall LE, Callender CO, Yeager CL, Barber JB, Dunston GM, Pinn-Wiggins VW. Organ donation in Blacks: the next frontier. Transplant Proc 1991: 23: 2500.
15. Morgan SE, Harrison TR, Chewning LV, Habib JG. Social representations of the Jessica Santillan case in the mass media: from sympathy to horror to hate. In: Wailoo K, Guarnaccia P, Livingston J eds. Beyond the Bungled Transplant: Jessica Santillan and High-Tech Medicine in Cultural Perspective. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005: In press.
16. Shavitz M. How Pro-Social Messages make their way into Entertainment Programming. Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Media, Citizens & Democracy Project. 2003.
17. Kellerman K. The negativity effect and its implications for initial interaction. Commun Monogr 1984: 51: 37.
18. Slater M, Rouner D. Value affirmative and value protective processing of alcohol education messages that include statistics or anecdotes. Commun Res 1996: 23: 210.
19. Green MC, Brock TC. The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives. J Pers Soc Psychol 2000: 79: 701.