title: A hierarchical communication model of the antecedents of health care professionals' support for donations after cardiac death.
abstract: Using structural equation modeling, the direct and indirect impact of five variables on the support of donation after cardiac death from the perspective of health care professionals were investigated: knowledge, trust in the transplant team, whether patients are in a state of irreversibility, whether health care professionals participate in a patient's death, and perceptions about the brain death versus cardiac death donation process. In total, 10/15 relationships posited in the model had significant pathways. The results provide insight into sequential communication strategies for generating support for donations after cardiac death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Marketing, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, McFarland, WI, USA. peltierj@uww.edu
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Peltier
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: D'Alessandro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Schibrowsky
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001926:Brain Death; D003142:Communication; D003643:Death; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement