According to United Network for Organ Sharing (2015) organ donations and transplantation are the removal of organs and tissues from one person and placed into another person’s body. There are currently 123,254 people in the United States awaiting an organ transplant. Every ten minutes someone is added to the national transplant waiting list. One organ donor can save 8 lives. Although there is an average of 6 transplants daily, 21 people die daily awaiting an organ donor. 90% of Americans say that they support organ donation but only 30% know the essential steps to take to become a donor (UNOS, 2015).
There are two possible ways of how organ donation can take place. The first way is the donation of organs from recently deceased people. The …show more content…
They look at behavioral outcomes like signing a donor card rather than using proxy measures such as willingness. Weber and colleagues surveyed 320 undergraduate students. Participants attended research sessions outside of class and were asked to complete a survey; after completing the survey a donor card was placed at the end. The participants could either sign it or not. The results yielded a small effect size for the relationship between gender and donor consent. However, they supported earlier claims that women are more likely to consent to organ donation than men.
In another study done by Thompson, Robinson and Kenny (2003) they not only looked at gender differences in organ donation but also which gender was more likely to have conversations regarding organ donation. Chosen students from selected classes where given an extra credit opportunity if they duplicated the questionnaire to individuals 21 and older. They were not allowed to give the questionnaire to more than 50 individuals. 353 men and 488 women completed the survey. The results showed that women are more likely to donate and more likely to converse about organ
There are two possible ways of how organ donation can take place. The first way is the donation of organs from recently deceased people. The …show more content…
They look at behavioral outcomes like signing a donor card rather than using proxy measures such as willingness. Weber and colleagues surveyed 320 undergraduate students. Participants attended research sessions outside of class and were asked to complete a survey; after completing the survey a donor card was placed at the end. The participants could either sign it or not. The results yielded a small effect size for the relationship between gender and donor consent. However, they supported earlier claims that women are more likely to consent to organ donation than men.
In another study done by Thompson, Robinson and Kenny (2003) they not only looked at gender differences in organ donation but also which gender was more likely to have conversations regarding organ donation. Chosen students from selected classes where given an extra credit opportunity if they duplicated the questionnaire to individuals 21 and older. They were not allowed to give the questionnaire to more than 50 individuals. 353 men and 488 women completed the survey. The results showed that women are more likely to donate and more likely to converse about organ