Organ Donation Interventions Among High Students

The number of persons actively waiting on the national solid organ waiting list continues to
rise while the number donating organs has failed to keep pace. This is a particular problem
for some portions of northeastern Ohio where the donation rate is as low as 32%. Adolescents
are an important group for organ donation efforts as they have not yet applied for a
driver's license and represent the majority of future donors. Yet many organ donation
interventions have not targeted adolescents. The investigators propose to utilize existing
high school teen summits developed by our Consortium partners to evaluate the effectiveness
of existing donation interventions. Together, the investigators will conduct a randomized
controlled 2x2 factorial trial to evaluate the independent and combined effects of two donor
education interventions on consent for organ donation on the electronic Ohio Donor Registry.
One thousand six hundred students over the age of 15.5 years from Cleveland-area high
schools will be enrolled.