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The effectiveness of an interactive organ donation education intervention for Dutch lower-educated students: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
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- Interventions for increasing solid organ donor registration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Targeting versus Tailoring Educational Videos for Encouraging Deceased Organ Donor Registration in Black-Owned Barbershops.Journal of health communication · 2022Trial
- Implementation of an interactive organ donation education program for Dutch lower-educated students: a process evaluation.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- A school-based respect-for-life program integrating deceased organ donation awareness in South Korea: a post-class mixed-methods evaluation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Effect of an Educational Intervention Program on Allied Health Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Organ Donation and Transplantation.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of interactive education intervention programme on willingness, knowledge, and attitude regarding organ donation: A pilot study among college students.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- Undergraduate medical, health science, and technical students' attitudes and knowledge on organ donation and transplantation.BMC medical education · 2025Observational
- A theory-driven organ donation campaign: a field intervention among university students in Iran.Clinical transplantation and research · 2024Article
- A Standardized Education Program on Deceased Organ and Tissue Donation for Premedical and Medial Students in Korea.Transplantation direct · 2024Article
- [Educational intervention on organ and tissue donation at UMAE No. 34].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundOrgan donation registration rates remain low, especially among people with lower educational levels. An interactive educational intervention was developed to prepare lower-educated students in the Netherlands for making a well-informed decision about organ donation. This article reports on the effects of this intervention on the intention to register (i.e., the primary outcome in the study at hand) and beliefs regarding organ donation. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe effectiveness was investigated in a post-test-only cluster randomized controlled trial, in which the intervention was offered to the experimental group and after measurement also to the control group. Randomization to the experimental and control groups took place at a class level. Teachers of schools for Intermediate Vocational Education who taught a course on Citizenship delivered three intervention elements (i.e., video fragments and discussion, quizzes with tailored feedback and exercise filling out a registration form) to their students during two 50-min lessons.
resultsA total of 1170 students participated in the trial and filled out a questionnaire (45 experimental and 43 control classes). Compared to the control group, students in the experimental group had higher odds of having positive registration intentions (OR = 1.81; 95%CI [1.10-2.96]), their perceived knowledge was higher (B = 0.62; 95%CI [0.23-1.01]) and they had higher intentions to talk to family members (B = 0.68; 95%CI [0.28-1.08]) and friends (B = 0.36; 95%CI [0.07-0.66]) about organ donation. There were no effects on the choice students intended to register (OR = 1.08; 95%CI [0.67-1.73]).
conclusionsProviding education in a classroom setting is an effective tool in increasing registration intentions. Despite uncertainties about the effects on actual registration behavior, a larger-scale dissemination of this intervention is recommended. Providing clear information and opening the discussion about organ donation is an important and promising first step towards higher registration rates.
trial registrationThe Dutch Trial Register, ID: NTR6771. Registered on 24 October 2017. https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6557.
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