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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 12.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Surg. 2010 Jul;145(7):684–689. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.110

Table 1.

List of Factors Within Each Domain

Demographic Cultural Awareness/Knowledge Perception Belief
  • Age

  • Sex

  • Education

  • Employment

  • Income

  • Zip code

  • Level of acculturation

  • Family influence

  • Religious influence

  • General awareness

  • Aware of driver’s license sign-up

  • Knowledge of how to sign up

  • Wealthy people likely to receive organ transplant

  • Physician may not save an organ donor’s life

  • Increase hospital cost

  • Brain dead have a chance to survive

  • Organ donation helps people

  • Social responsibility

  • Willing to donate to stranger

  • Disfigure the body

  • It is cruel