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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2013 Apr 22;27(3):E320–E326. doi: 10.1111/ctr.12122

Table 2.

Characteristics by Primary Outcome (success in having donors tested)

Donors Tested (n=29) No Donors Tested (n= 62) P value
Potential Donor Characteristics
Age, mean (SD) 35.0 (17.3) 38.3 (15.7) 0.6
Female 55.2% 50.0% 0.6
US resident 100.0% 79.5% 0.02
Personal Information Reported
Age 48.3% 25.8% 0.04
Location 89.7% 62.9% 0.01
Cause of kidney disease 62.1% 33.9% 0.02
Blood type 79.3% 56.5% 0.04
Photograph of potential recipient 90.0% 69.4% 0.04
Link to personal website 31.0% 6.5% 0.01
Mention of family/friends ability to donate 34.5% 21.0% 0.2
Currently on dialysis 48.3% 41.9% 0.6
Previous transplant 20.7% 11.3% 0.3
Transplant Information
Mentioned paired kidney donation 27.6% 17.7% 0.3
Mentioned the length of the waiting list 31.0% 17.7% 0.2
Link to appropriate transplant website 58.6% 27.4% 0.01
Mentioned risks of donation 10.3% 3.2% 0.2
Mentioned costs of donation 17.2% 9.7% 0.4
Web Traffic Information
≥ 200 likes 60.7% 8.1% <0.001
≥ 25 wall posts by page author 69.0% 3.2% <0.001
≥ 25 wall posts by others 72.4% 4.8% <0.001
Encouraged others to “spread the word” 79.3% 41.9% 0.001
Composite Scores
Personal information score, mean (SD) 5.0 (1.1) 3.5 (1.2) <0.001
Transplant information score, mean (SD) 1.2 (1.0) 0.6 (0.8) 0.01
Page Traffic score, mean (SD) 1.3 (0.9) 0.1 (0.4) <0.001

The personal information score gave a point for including each of the following: photograph of the potential recipient, age, cause of kidney disease, blood type, location, link to a personal website, and mention of family/friends’ ability to donate (score 0–7; 7=most personal information provided).

The transplant information score gave a point for: mention of length of transplant waiting list, paired kidney donation, and provision of a transplant website (score 0–3; 3=all factors used in page). Page traffic score gave a point for each of the following criteria: ≥ 25 posts by others, and ≥ 200 likes (score 0–2; 2=highest traffic).

Abbreviations: SD (standard deviation)