Understanding Family Refusal

March 8, 2020 updated by: Jean Liu, Yale-NUS College

Exploring Family vs. Individual Decision-making in Organ Donation

The investigators plan a secondary data analysis of an existing dataset to examine how individual decision-making differs from family decision-making in organ donation.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

1007

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

21 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants were a representative sample of Singapore's population, approached via door-to-door recruitment and via community eateries.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Citizens or permanent residents of Singapore
  • Above 21

Exclusion Criteria:

- Below 21

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Intervention / Treatment
Community sample
Representative sample of the Singapore population
Other: Health sciences survey
Large scale demographic survey evaluating attitudes of population towards organ donation for the self vs. family

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Willingness to donate
Time Frame: Single measurement (time of taking the survey)
Participants indicated their willingness to donate their own organs and those of a close family member
Single measurement (time of taking the survey)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Confidence in family decision-making
Time Frame: Single measurement (time of taking the survey)
Participants rated how confident they were that - upon their family member's death - they would respect their family member's views regarding donation rated using 5-point scales anchored on one end with 1="Not confident at all" and 5="Absolutely confident").
Single measurement (time of taking the survey)

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Yale-NUS College

Collaborators

Singapore General Hospital

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

September 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 31, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

March 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 8, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 8, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

March 11, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 11, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 8, 2020

Last Verified

March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HSS-1502-P02-06

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

Due to stipulations by the Institutional Review Board, there is no data that can be shared.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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