NCT04308746

Evaluating Attitudes Towards Organ Donation in the United States on MTurk

Evaluating Attitudes Towards Organ Donation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 211 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale-NUS College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study is conducted to investigate the effects of priming different cultural orientations on participants' decisions on whether to donate their organs, in an opt-out donation system scenario where the default is a presumed consent on the part of the individual.

Detailed description

Participants complete a survey where they respond to scales measuring their baseline cultural and power distance orientations, and answer questions on their demographics such as gender, race, employment etc. 24 hours later, participants fill in a 2nd survey where they are instructed to complete 1 out of 2 possible priming tasks. The possible tasks consist of an Individualistic priming condition and a Collectivistic priming condition; both tasks require participants to answer 3 statements each to 3 questions regarding the self or their social group. Participants then indicate their choice on whether to donate their organs (default or opt-out), rate their confidence regarding their choice and complete the same scales measuring their cultural and power distance orientations.

Conditions

• Individual Difference

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Online Individualistic Prime (statement writing)	Participants write 3 statements each about (1) themselves, (2) why they are not like others, and (3) why it is beneficial to stand out from others
BEHAVIORAL	Online Collectivistic Prime (statement writing)	Participants think about a social group and write 3 statements each about (1) their social group, (2) why they are like others, and (3) why it is beneficial to blend in with others

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-16
• Primary completion: 2020-02-28
• Completion: 2020-02-28
• First posted: 2020-03-16
• Last updated: 2020-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore