Social comparisons and chronic illness: research synthesis and clinical implications

D Arigo, JM Suls, JM Smyth - Health Psychology Review, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The chronically ill patient must adjust to new life circumstances and manage ongoing threats
to personal health. Patients often make comparisons with each other, which can have effects …

Blood and organ donation: health impact, prevalence, correlates, and interventions

E Ferguson, C Murray, RE O'Carroll - Psychology & health, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Without a supply of blood, health services could not meet their clinical needs.
Similarly, organs for transplantation save and transform lives. Donations are acts of …

Beyond the sex binary: toward the inclusive anatomical sciences education

G Štrkalj, N Pather - Anatomical sciences education, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Developments in biology and genetics in recent decades have caused significant shifts in
the understanding and conceptualization of human biological variation. Humans vary …

Increasing organ donor registrations with behavioral interventions: A field experiment

N Robitaille, N Mazar, CI Tsai, AM Haviv… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although prior research has advanced our understanding of the drivers of organ donation
attitudes and intentions, little is known about how to increase actual registrations within …

Posthumous organ donation attitudes, intentions to donate, and organ donor status: Examining the role of the big five personality dimensions and altruism

EM Hill - Personality and Individual Differences, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study examined the role of the big five personality dimensions and altruism in
organ donation attitudes (ODA), intentions to register, and organ donor status using a …

Effect of persuasive messages on National Health Service Organ Donor Registrations: a pragmatic quasi-randomised controlled trial with one million UK road …

A Sallis, H Harper, M Sanders - Trials, 2018 - Springer
Background A shortage of organs available for transplantation is causing loss of life.
Increasing the number of individuals on the National Health Service (NHS) Organ Donor …

“Are you in or are you out?!” Moral appeals to the public in organ donation poster campaigns: A multimodal and ethical analysis

SL Hansen, MI Eisner, L Pfaller… - Health …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Organ transplantation is a well-established practice in modern medicine. However, many
countries, especially those with an opt-in regulation, face the problem of low donation …

Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and unwillingness to donate organs post-mortem

M Tarabeih, R Abu-Rakia, Y Bokek-Cohen, P Azuri - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Willingness to donate organs is contingent upon knowledge about and attitude toward organ
donation. In order to explore differences between members of the three monotheistic …

Assessing the influence of affective attitudes, demography and blood donor status on organ donor registration active decisions in opt-out systems

L Shepherd, RE O'Carroll… - Journal of Health …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In contrast to opt-in systems, relatively little is known about what influences whether or not
people register a decision about organ donation in opt-out systems. We address this gap in …

Individual differences in willingness to become an organ donor: A decision tree approach to reasoned action

B Demir, GT Kumkale - Personality and Individual Differences, 2013 - Elsevier
The promotion of organ donation requires a better understanding of the attributes associated
with willingness to donate. This entails revealing complex interactions among personality …