Informing American Muslims About Living Donation

Assessing the Feasibility of Peer-Led Educational Workshops on Increasing Awareness Among American Muslims About Living Donation in Mosque Communities

The purpose of this projects is to test the effectiveness of a tailored educational intervention in increasing knowledge about organ donation among Muslim Americans. More specifically, using the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a conceptual framework, the workshop's goal is to enhance attendee knowledge of the benefits and risks (behavioral beliefs and attitude), understanding of religious arguments for and against (normative beliefs and subjective norm), and procedural knowledge about the process and types of (control beliefs and perceived control) living organ donation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Living Organ Donation
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Organ Donation Workshop; Other: End of Life Care Workshop

Detailed Description

The study consists of two workshops (control and experimental) and an optional follow-up interview.

The study contains 2 intervention arms based on the order in which the organ donation workshop is delivered at the mosque: early and late. The early arm will receive the experimental organ donation workshop first, followed by the control workshop (on end-of-life care). The late arm will receive the workshops in the opposite order (end-of-life care workshop followed by the organ donation workshop).

To address varied adult learning styles, the workshops will incorporate didactic teaching, moderated panel presentations, and facilitated small group discussions led by a trained peer educator. Workshops will also involve self-administered surveys.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 337
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
      • University of Chicago

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Self-identified Muslim men and women
• Fluent in English
• Adult
• Availability to attend workshop sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• No personal or immediate family history of organ transplant

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: OTHER
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: CROSSOVER
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
OTHER: Early Arm; The early arm will receive the experimental organ donation workshop first, followed by the control workshop on end-of-life care.	Other: Organ Donation Workshop; Discussion Moderated by Peer Educators Didactic Session 1: Biomedical Aspects of Living Donation Didactic Session 2: Organ Donation and Transplantation in the US- Statistics and Procedures Moderated Debate: Living Organ Donation: Halal or Haram? Facilitated Group Discussions with Peer Educators; Other Names: Experimental; Other: End of Life Care Workshop; Discussion Moderated by Peer Educators Didactic Session 1: Critical Theological Concepts about Sickness and Health in Islamic Bioethics Didactic Session 2: Islamic Rulings about Brain Death, and Withdrawing/Withholding Life Support Moderated Panel Discussion: End-of-life Decision Making Facilitated Group Discussions with Peer Educators; Other Names: Control
OTHER: Late Arm; The late arm will receive the control workshop on end-of-life care first, followed by the experimental organ donation workshop.	Other: Organ Donation Workshop; Discussion Moderated by Peer Educators Didactic Session 1: Biomedical Aspects of Living Donation Didactic Session 2: Organ Donation and Transplantation in the US- Statistics and Procedures Moderated Debate: Living Organ Donation: Halal or Haram? Facilitated Group Discussions with Peer Educators; Other Names: Experimental; Other: End of Life Care Workshop; Discussion Moderated by Peer Educators Didactic Session 1: Critical Theological Concepts about Sickness and Health in Islamic Bioethics Didactic Session 2: Islamic Rulings about Brain Death, and Withdrawing/Withholding Life Support Moderated Panel Discussion: End-of-life Decision Making Facilitated Group Discussions with Peer Educators; Other Names: Control

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Islamic knowledge of living organ donation	Islamic Knowledge of Living Donation [IK-LOD] Scale	2 weeks
Change in living organ donation knowledge	Living Donation subscale of the Rotterdam Renal Transplant Knowledge Test (R3K-T)	2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Chicago
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Michael Quinn, PhD, University of Chicago

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Padela AI, Duivenbode R, Saunders MR, Quinn M, Koh E. The impact of religiously tailored and ethically balanced education on intention for living organ donation among Muslim Americans. Clin Transplant. 2020 Dec;34(12):e14111. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14111. Epub 2020 Nov 1.
• Padela AI, Duivenbode R, Quinn M, Saunders MR. Informing American Muslims about living donation through tailored health education: A randomized controlled crossover trial evaluating increase in biomedical and religious knowledge. Am J Transplant. 2021 Mar;21(3):1227-1237. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16242. Epub 2020 Sep 15.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): October 10, 2018
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): August 3, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): August 3, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 19, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 19, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 23, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): October 19, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 15, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: IRB18-1378

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No