NCT03816241

Mechanisms of Nudges on Families' Decision-Making Process

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale-NUS College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

As part of a larger study, participants are told to read 1 out of 4 anecdotes depicting an organ donation scenario where they are required to make a decision on behalf of their mother who has just suffered an accident. The participants are then surveyed on their attitudes towards organ donation.

Detailed description

As part of a larger study, participants are given 1 out of 4 possible vignettes which depicts an organ donation scenario involving their mother. The possible vignettes consist of a Control condition, a Framing condition, a Normative condition and a condition that includes all the nudges. Participants are then given surveys to gauge their views and attitudes towards organ donation as a whole, their trust towards medical institutions and the doctors, their perceived manipulation from the doctor and their views on the altruistic nature of organ donation.

Conditions

• Organ Donation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Frame	Vignette is framed in a way that nudges participant to leave a legacy
OTHER	Norms	Vignette informs the participant that most people choose an option to try to nudge participant into choosing that option as well

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2019-01-25
• Last updated: 2019-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore