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Tissue Banking : Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status
Joint Authors
Sheehan, John D.
McKenzie, Kenneth D.
Fitzpatrick, Patricia E.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-3, 3 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-03-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
3
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Understanding the relationships among altruistic health acts may serve to aid therapeutic research advances.
In this paper, we report on the links between two such behaviours—donating blood and carrying an organ donor card—and willingness to donate urological tissue to a tissue bank.
Reasons for the differential willingness to do so are examined in this paper.
A systematic sample of 259 new and returning attendees at a tertiary urology referral clinic in Ireland completed a self-report questionnaire in an outpatient setting.
In addition to demographic details, details of known diagnosis of malignancy and family history of cancer; attitudes to tissue donation for research purposes were gauged using a 5-point Likert scale.
Both blood donors and organ donor card carriers were more likely to be willing to donate tissue for research purposes.
Blood donors were more likely want to know their overall results in comparison to nonblood donors and want their samples to be used for nonprofit research.
Our hypothesis that being a blood donor would be a better predictor to donate urological tissue than being an organ donor card carrier borne out by the trends reported above.
American Psychological Association (APA)
McKenzie, Kenneth D.& Fitzpatrick, Patricia E.& Sheehan, John D.. 2012. Tissue Banking : Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status. ISRN Urology،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-3.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
McKenzie, Kenneth D.…[et al.]. Tissue Banking : Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status. ISRN Urology No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-474548
American Medical Association (AMA)
McKenzie, Kenneth D.& Fitzpatrick, Patricia E.& Sheehan, John D.. Tissue Banking : Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status. ISRN Urology. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-474548
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-474548