Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Prog Transplant. 2024 Sep;34(3):130-137. doi: 10.1177/15269248241268724. Epub 2024 Aug 2.
Improving public awareness about the opportunity to become a vascularized composite allograft (VCA) donor is crucial to increasing access to organs. Prior research identified a need for comprehensive and comprehensible public education materials. A 2-round Delphi panel was conducted to garner US expert consensus on the topics and language to include in public education materials via an organ procurement organization-hosted website. The round 1 survey assessed the importance of educational topics and statements ( = 19) using 5-point Likert scales. The round 2 survey asked experts to rate new and repeated educational topics ( = 27). Open-ended comment boxes elicited experts' feedback and language revisions for educational statements. Responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics and rapid qualitative analysis. Eighteen experts responded to the round 1 survey and 15 to round 2. After round 2, 20 topics had mean () importance greater than neutral ( > 3.00) and were retained in the educational materials. The 5 most important topics by mean Likert ratings were: consent process for donation ( = 4.73), potential recipients ( = 4.73), most common vascularized composite organs transplanted ( = 4.47), purpose ( = 4.47), and definition ( = 4.47). Seven themes emerged from experts' open-ended comments about the importance and language of educational statements. Delphi panel findings identified expert-endorsed topics and educational statements for public education about vascularized composite organ donation via an educational website. Future research should assess the website's impact on public knowledge of VCA donation.
提高公众对成为血管化复合移植物 (VCA) 供体的机会的认识对于增加器官获取至关重要。先前的研究确定需要综合和易于理解的公众教育材料。通过器官采购组织主办的网站，进行了两轮 Delphi 小组研究，以就公众教育材料中包含的主题和语言征求美国专家的共识。第一轮调查使用 5 分制李克特量表评估了教育主题和陈述的重要性（=19）。第二轮调查要求专家对新的和重复的教育主题（=27）进行评分。开放式评论框征求了专家对教育陈述的反馈和语言修订意见。使用描述性统计和快速定性分析对回复进行了分析。18 名专家回应了第一轮调查，15 名专家回应了第二轮调查。第二轮调查后，有 20 个主题的平均（）重要性大于中性（>3.00），并保留在教育材料中。平均李克特评分最重要的 5 个主题是：捐赠同意过程（=4.73）、潜在受赠者（=4.73）、最常见移植的血管化复合器官（=4.47）、目的（=4.47）和定义（=4.47）。专家对教育陈述的重要性和语言的开放式评论中出现了 7 个主题。德尔菲小组的研究结果确定了通过教育网站进行血管化复合器官捐赠的公众教育的专家认可主题和教育陈述。未来的研究应评估该网站对公众对 VCA 捐赠的认识的影响。
