The Power of an Immediate Donor Registration Opportunity: Translating Organ Donation Attitudes Into Registration Behavior

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 49-59

  Sharpe, Emily ^a   Moloney, Gail ^a   Sutherland, Michael ^b   Judd, Anne ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Mid North Coast Local Health District   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE SCALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; REGISTRATION;

EID: 84995543105     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2016.1249792     Document Type: Article

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