Clinical trial NCT05595382: Motivations to Transplant Registry Participation
Official title: Motivations for Stem Cell Transplant Registry Participation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: stem cell transplant
bone marrow donor
motivations
altruism
Lead sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-27
Enrollment: 397
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 35
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The current study seeks to understand factors that influence college students' likelihood of participating the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be the Match for bone marrow and stem cell donations. The secondary aim is to compare emotional and rational approaches to encouraging participation in the registry and how these approaches may impact intentions to participate in the NMDP.

Detailed description: This study is a randomized controlled trial that will randomize participants to receive either an emotional appeal about a child with cancer who needs a bone marrow transplant or a rational appeal using data on the racial/ethnic disparities within the transplant registry.

Participants will be recruited through the Psychology Subject Pool, which will then link students to the study measures in an online survey. Participants will be asked their age to confirm eligibility to participate (students must be between 18-35), and eligible students will be presented with the consent form through the online survey system. Participants will then be asked to complete measures of demographic information, personality/psychological characteristics, and transplant-related knowledge, intentions, and attitudes. All participants will then be given background information on bone marrow transplants.

Randomization: Students will be randomized by sex in the online survey system to the emotional presentation condition or the rational presentation condition. The emotional condition will tell the story of a fictional pediatric patient with cancer who needs a transplant. The rational condition will describe the facts about the need for diversity in the registry.

After being presented with the rational or emotional appeal, participants will again be asked about their intentions to register, their motivations for registering, and their mood.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Rutgers Camden Students enrolled in Psych 101 and Method and Theory
* Between the ages of 18-35

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students under 18 years of age or over 36 or older will be excluded.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Intention to Register
timeFrame: Baseline and after the experimental manipulation (Post-Intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mood
timeFrame: Baseline and after experimental manipulation (Post-Intervention)
measure: Psychosocial and Demographic Correlates of Intentions to Register--Knowledge
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Camden
country: United States
facility: Rutgers University Camden
state: New Jersey
Study officials:
affiliation: Rutgers University
name: Lauren C Daniel, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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