Communication as a predictor of willingness to donate one's organs: An addition to the theory of reasoned action

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 257-262

  Jeffres, Leo W ^a   Carroll, Jeanine A ^a   Rubenking, Bridget E ^a   Amschlinger, Joe ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CAUCASIAN; DECISION MAKING; DONOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL VALUES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 62449234765     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.18.4.er85346528322872     Document Type: Article

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