2020
Hyde MK, Masser BM. Eligible blood donors’ decisions about donating stool for fecal microbiota transplantation: Does ambivalence play a role? Transfusion. 2020. doi:10.1111/trf.16109
Machin LL, Williams RA, Frith L. Proposing a sociology of donation: The donation of body parts and products for art, education, research, or treatment. Sociology Compass. 2020;14(10):1-6. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12826
Sandner S, Merz EM, van den Hurk K, van Kraaij M, Mikkelsen C, Ullum H, Clement M. Validation of a standardized donor health questionnaire across substances of human origin. Vox Sanguinis. 2020. doi:10.1111/vox.13054
2019
Boylan AM, Locock L, Machin L. From waste product to blood, brains and narratives: developing a pluralist sociology of contributions to health research. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2019;41(3):585-600. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12715
Dimond R, Machin L, Frith L. Towards a sociology of donation. Sociology of Health and Illness. 2019;41(3):549-552. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12840
Ferguson E, Murray C, O'Carroll RE. Blood and organ donation: health impact, prevalence, correlates, and interventions. Psychology & Health. 2019;34(9):1073-1104. doi:10.1080/08870446.2019.1603385
2017
Merz E‐M, van Den Hurk K, de Kort, WLAM. Organ donation registration and decision-making among current blood donors in the Netherlands. Progress in Transplantation. 2017;27(3):266–272. doi:10.1177/1526924817715470
2015
Machin L, Cherkassky L. Deconstructing donation. JMLE, Journal of Medical Law and Ethics. 2015;3:145.
CLASSIC PAPERS
Hyde MK, Knowles SR, White KM. Donating blood and organs: using an extended theory of planned behavior perspective to identify similarities and differences in individual motivations to donate. Health Education Research. 2013;28(6):1092-1104. doi:10.1093/her/cyt078
sustaining and understanding living donors research program
Professor Barbara Masser, Dr Mel Hyde
Recent advances in genomics show that the most efficient and effective way to treat a range of diseases and disorders is with well-matched donations of blood, plasma, platelets, stem cells, kidney and partial livers from living donors. However, our theoretical and practical understanding of how to help the medical matchmakers recruit the right donor at the right time and sustain them to donate the right product for our current and future patients needs development. The Sustaining and Understanding Living Donors Research Program is funded by The University of Queensland in conjunction with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. The research program will focus on conducting basic and applied research to understand the behaviour, motivations of, and barriers to living donors and develop and evaluate interventions appropriate from a clinical, donor, and economic perspective. Gains in our understanding will translate to practical and actionable strategies that improve the recruitment and maintenance of living donors.
Identifying shared challenges in the recruitment and retention of donors of substances of human origin: a systematic review of reviews
Professor Barbara Masser, Dr Mel Hyde, Sarah Coundouris
At a surface level, the motivations, experiences and behaviours of donors of substances of human origin (SoHO) appear quite different, however empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that there may be shared challenges in the recruitment and retention of donors. Examples of these shared challenges include the need for increased cultural diversity in donors and male donors. Collectively, the SoHO donation literature is vast and heterogeneous and a number of reviews exist that may offer key insights in resolving these challenges. To our knowledge, these reviews have not yet been synthesised or integrated so that shared challenges and gaps in understanding across SoHO donation contexts can be identified. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to undertake this synthesis by conducting a systematic review of reviews on donors of SoHO.
For more details and preregistration of the systematic review, please click here.
Resources coming soon