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-...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 6, Pages: 2286-2291 |
| Further subjects: | B
religious involvement
B Religion B Organ Donation |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9982-4 |
