TY - JOUR
T1 - Grey's Anatomy Viewing and Organ Donation Attitude Formation
T2 - Examining Mediators Bridging This Relationship Among African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos
AU - Quick, Brian L.
AU - Morgan, Susan E.
AU - LaVoie, Nicole R.
AU - Bosch, Dave
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration, for funding this project.
Funding Information:
This study was supported by grant #R39OT15493-02 from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Division of Transplantation (HRSA/DoT), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of HRSA/DoT.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - This study tests a comprehensive model linking Grey's Anatomy viewing and perceived realism of this program with organ donation knowledge, barriers-including medical mistrust, disgust, bodily integrity, and superstition-and subsequent organ donation attitudes. In addition to testing the hypothesized structural model, ethnic differences were examined by way of (a) the multigroup method to test for differences in path coefficients, (b) multivariate analysis of variance to examine differences among the study variables, and (c) χ2 tests to assess differences in organ donation registrations among African Americans (n = 200), Caucasians (n = 200), and Latinos (n = 200). Support for the overall structural model was found and various differences emerged among the African American, Caucasian, and Latino sample across study variables. The results from this research are discussed with an emphasis on the theoretical and practical implications.
AB - This study tests a comprehensive model linking Grey's Anatomy viewing and perceived realism of this program with organ donation knowledge, barriers-including medical mistrust, disgust, bodily integrity, and superstition-and subsequent organ donation attitudes. In addition to testing the hypothesized structural model, ethnic differences were examined by way of (a) the multigroup method to test for differences in path coefficients, (b) multivariate analysis of variance to examine differences among the study variables, and (c) χ2 tests to assess differences in organ donation registrations among African Americans (n = 200), Caucasians (n = 200), and Latinos (n = 200). Support for the overall structural model was found and various differences emerged among the African American, Caucasian, and Latino sample across study variables. The results from this research are discussed with an emphasis on the theoretical and practical implications.
KW - ethnicity
KW - media effects
KW - organ donation
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U2 - 10.1177/0093650213475476
DO - 10.1177/0093650213475476
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901387520
VL - 41
SP - 690
EP - 716
JO - Communication Research
JF - Communication Research
SN - 0093-6502
IS - 5
ER -