Clinical Trial: Intervention to Motivate Teens to be a Designated Organ Donor on Driver's License

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Multimedia Intervention to Motivate Ethnic Teens to be Designated Donors

Brief Summary: This study will test the effectiveness of a multimedia campaign to educate ethnic minority teens about the choice to become a designated organ donor on their first driver's license.

Detailed Summary: Less than a fourth of ethnic minority teens in the U.S. are a designated donor (DD) on their state-issued driver's license. Asian-American/Pacific Islander (AA/PI) adolescents in Hawaii are even less likely to be a DD or to have talked to their family about becoming an organ donor. Health education interventions for adolescents have demonstrated improvements in knowledge and intentions to be an organ donor; but, AA/PI teens are underrepresented in such studies. Nevertheless, whether changes in knowledge or intentions result in more organ donors is unclear, since previous studies have not included a concrete behavioral outcome such as the teen becoming a donor on their driver's license. This application will test, via a randomized clinical trial, the efficacy of an Interactive Multimedia Intervention (IMI) to increase the number of AA/PI adolescents who are a DD on their state issued driver's license, identification card, or organ donor card/donor registry. Teen groups will be recruited from the community (churches and high schools, n = 40 groups, 530 teens) and randomly assigned to either the intervention or a comparison condition on prevention of underage drinking of alcohol. The theoretically-derived intervention will include culturally sensitive messages and information about being a designated donor that will be delivered via a DVD, Email, text/instant messaging, and websites. The comparison condition includes materials (DVD) previously shown to increase awareness about laws restricting access to alcohol by teens. The primary outcome is objectively validated donor status on a teens' driver's license/state identification card (ID) or donor card after 12 months of intervention. A secondary outcome is the reported rate of family discussions about organ donation and knowledge/intentions about donation. We hypothesize the youth groups assigned to the intervention will have higher rates for family discussions and DD status, compared to groups in the comparison conditi
Sponsor: University of Hawaii

Current Primary Outcome: Designated Organ Donor Status on Driver's License [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Number of students who reported not being donor at baseline but were donor at 12 months follow-up


Original Primary Outcome: Percent of students who are a designated organ donor on driver's license [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Current Secondary Outcome: Talked to Parents About Choice to be Organ Donor on License at 12 Months [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Number of teens who talk had not talked to parents at baseline but reported they had talked to their parents about the choice to become an organ donor on their driver's license at 12 months


Original Secondary Outcome: Percent of teens who talk to their parents about the choice to become an organ donor on their driver's license [ Time Frame: 12 months ]

Information By: University of Hawaii

Dates:
Date Received: December 17, 2008
Date Started: April 2008
Date Completion:
Last Updated: June 23, 2015
Last Verified: January 2015