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Older Hispanics (age 50+ years) are disproportionately overrepresented on the transplant waitlist, but underrepresented as deceased donors and transplant recipients. This application proposes the formative research to design and empirically test an eLearning module, Promotoras de Donación, to train community health workers (i.e., Promotoras), who already provide culturally and linguistically sensitive services to their communities, to discuss and promote organ donation with older Hispanic women in 3 geographically distinct communities across the U.S. The proposed intervention leverages the established and evidence-based Promotoras program to increase rates of donor designation within Hispanic communities across the U.S. and reduce disparities in access to transplantation for this population.


Clinical Trial Description

Despite consistently positive attitudes toward organ donation, increasing the number of registered organ donors in the US continues to challenge the professional and research communities. Improving rates of donor designation among ethnic minorities is of particular importance given the need to match donated organs to recipients on blood type and human leukocyte antigens - the best matches are found when the donor and recipient are of the same ethnic background. In Hispanic communities, lay health educators (i.e., Promotoras) are trained to promote behaviors that empower and enable constituents to prevent disease, and increase control over and improve their health. In partnership with leadership of four Promotoras organizations in geographically diverse areas of the U.S. (PA, IL, TX) representing the largest subgroups of the Hispanic population, this pilot study proposes to leverage the preexisting network of lay health educators to advocate for organ donation and promote donor registration (first person consent) among female Hispanics over the age of 50. Specifically, this study will collect the formative data needed to design an educational and behavioral communication eLearning module for Promotoras and test the impact of the training on Promotoras' knowledge of organ donation, confidence discussing and promoting donor registration, and efficacy increasing rates of donor registration among mature and older Hispanic women. Focus group interviews with Hispanic women and Promotoras will identify the information needs and concerns about organ donation registration of these two groups; interviews with lay educators will also gauge interactivity preferences as well as content and design issues for the resulting web-based training (Aim 1). These data will be used to develop an eLearning module to educate Promotoras about organ donation and train them to discuss donation and promote donor registration (Aim 2). A brief quantitative survey will assess the impact of the module on knowledge of organ donation and confidence (communication self-efficacy) discussing donation and promoting donor designation. We will evaluate Promotoras' efficacy promoting organ donation by assessing the number of Hispanic women age 50 and over who register as posthumous organ donors as a proportion of all women attending small group sessions led by trained Promotoras (Aim 3). If effective, the eLearning module could easily be disseminated nationally to train Promotoras to discuss and promote organ donation. Ultimately, this 'train-the-trainer' study has the potential to increase rates of donor registration among Hispanic communities in the U.S. and help to reduce disparities in access to transplantation for this population. ;


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NCT number NCT04007419
Study type Interventional
Source Temple University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date September 1, 2016
Completion date April 27, 2020

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