{"id":68941,"date":"2005-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researchers-awarded-1-million-grant-to-increase-organ-tissue-donations-among-minorities\/"},"modified":"2005-07-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researchers-awarded-1-million-grant-to-increase-organ-tissue-donations-among-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/07\/uri-researchers-awarded-1-million-grant-to-increase-organ-tissue-donations-among-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researchers awarded $1 million grant to increase organ, tissue donations among minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — July 18, 2005 — As part of a continued national effort to increase organ and tissue donations in African-American and other minority communities, researchers from the 溏心vlog免费B站 have been awarded a $1,078,385 from the U. S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation.<\/p>\n


\nThe grant is the second awarded to 溏心vlog免费B站 in recent years to address the organ donation issue from a behavior-change perspective. This new award follows the successful completion of a $1.25 million grant to increase the donation intentions for students attending four Historically Black Colleges and Universities in North Carolina that was implemented 2002-2004. <\/p>\n


\nIn this new program, 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers will use their successful organ-donor recruitment and behavior-change programs with African American adults living in Guilford County, N.C., as part of a broader health promotion campaign. In addition to affecting the donation decision-making process, the project is also designed to encourage exercise\/physical activity among the participants, while monitoring cigarette smoking and stress management activities.<\/p>\n


\nThe grant was awarded to 溏心vlog免费B站 in partnership with the North Carolina Affiliate of the National Kidney Foundation and North Carolina A&T State University. 溏心vlog免费B站 Psychology Department and Cancer Prevention Research Center Assistant Professor Mark Robbins of Wakefield, R.I., Lorna Harris of North Carolina A&T State University and Jaye Scull of the National Kidney Foundation North Carolina are co-principal investigators on the grant. Human Development and Family Studies Associate Professor J. Eugene Knott of Peace Dale, R.I., and postdoctoral fellow Kara Hall are co-investigators on the project from 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\nRobbins said the aim of the latest grant is to increase the rate of donation intentions among African American adults. \u201cWhat we learned from our previous work is that different community groups have differing values, beliefs about organ donation, and different experiences with health care in general. Our goal is to find ways to increase awareness and donor willingness among the African American community, so that their ultimate transplantation experience may be optimized, and more high quality tissue match transplantations can be accomplished,\u201d said Robbins.<\/p>\n


\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, there are more than 83,000 individuals on the national transplant waiting list. Of these, about 50 percent represent minorities. This need for organs outpaces registered donations.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 team is responsible for directing the research methodologies of the grant and the creation of content and distribution of tailored intervention materials. The researchers will evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative computerized expert system intervention combined with a community awareness campaign delivered by health advocates. These interventions are based on the transtheoretical model of behavior change, which was developed at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Cancer Prevention Research Center. <\/p>\n


\nCommunity-based donor awareness campaigns will be put into place for all potential participants. Selected participants will complete periodic assessments of their donation intentions and half of them will receive individually tailored organ donation expert system feedback reports. The system incorporates a person\u2019s readiness to make a decision or change a behavior as part of their individualized feedback. It has been tailored to reflect their readiness to be organ and tissue donors. Hall, a postdoctoral fellow at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Cancer Prevention Research Center, heads the expert system development for this project.<\/p>\n


\nThe new study joins ongoing projects researching ways to increase family consent for donation, motivate individuals to declare their intent to donate and share their decision with family members. Those projects have received grants and contracts totaling approximately $5.5 million, including a $1.2 million grant awarded to Robbins and Knott at 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1999 for a program to increase family consent for organ donation.<\/p>\n


\nFollowing decades of extensive research sponsored in large part by the National Cancer Institute, the transtheoretical model is now used successfully in interventions for behaviors such as smoking, alcohol, cocaine, mammography, exercise, sun protection, coping and stress, weight control, HIV and safer sex, and substance abuse.<\/p>\n


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\nOrgan donation research team: 溏心vlog免费B站 Human Development and Family Studies Associate Professor J. Eugene Knott, Paul Krebs, a graduate student assistant, and Psychology Department and Cancer Prevention Research Center Assistant Professor Mark Robbins. In front row, Project Manager Karin Oatley and postdoctoral fellow Kara Hall. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — July 18, 2005 — As part of a continued national effort to increase organ and tissue donations in African-American and other minority communities, researchers from the 溏心vlog免费B站 have been awarded a $1,078,385 from the U. S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation. The grant is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}