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Donation Intentions among African American College Students: Decisional Balance and Self-efficacy Measures

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Although the need for transplantation among African Americans is high, their donation rates are disproportionately low. This study describes the development and validation of culturally adapted psychosocial measures, including Transtheoretical Model constructs, Stages of Change, Decisional Balance, and Self-efficacy, related to deceased organ and tissue donation for an African American college population. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses for Decisional Balance and Self-efficacy measures demonstrated factor structures similar to previous studies of other behavioral applications, indicated excellent model fit and showed good internal and external validity. This study developed brief measures with good psychometric properties for an emerging behavior change domain in a new population.

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This research was supported by a grant funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Special Programs, Division of Transplantation Grant # 1H39OT00077.

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  1. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA

    Kara L. Hall, Mark L. Robbins, Andrea Paiva & J. Eugene Knott

  2. Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd., MSC 7326, Executive Plaza North, Room 5128, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7326, USA

    Kara L. Hall

  3. North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Lorna Harris

  4. Carolina Donor Services, Durham, NC, USA

    Burton Mattice

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Hall, K.L., Robbins, M.L., Paiva, A. et al. Donation Intentions among African American College Students: Decisional Balance and Self-efficacy Measures. J Behav Med 30, 483–495 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-007-9121-8

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