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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2010 Nov;24(6):784–793. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01200.x

Table 4.

Predictors of willingness to donate at baseline

Variable Odds Ratio Std. Error 95% Confidence Interval p valuea
Ethnicity (Reference = European American):
 African American 0.20 0.08 0.85-0.45 <0.001
 Asian American 0.24 0.11 0.10–0.57 0.001
 Other non-European American 0.21 0.14 0.06-0.79 0.02
Knowledge score 1.12 0.06 1.02–1.25 <0.02
Gender (Reference = male) 2.10 0.69 1.11–3.98 0.02
School 1.17 0.22 0.80–1.71 0.41
Having talked with family 1.23 0.44 0.61–2.47 0.56
Age 1.02 0.13 0.80–1.33 0.83
Personal experienceb 1.05 0.46 0.45–2.49 0.90
a

Ordinal logistic regression analysis.

b

Personal experience reflects personal knowledge of someone who has been an organ donor, signed up as a bone marrow donor, been on the waiting list for an organ transplant, or received an organ transplant.