Discriminators of willingness to consider cadaveric kidney donation among black Americans

Black Americans were classified as either willing or unwilling to consider serving as kidney donors according to a combination of demographic and social psychological variables. Findings indicated that, in addition to selected religious variables, willingness to consider donation was associated with gender, age, source of information about organ donation, perceived need for transplants among blacks, self-acceptance of transplant organs and perception of bias in the selection of transplant recipients. Implications of the findings for social work practice and future research are discussed.