Date of Conferral
2018
Degree
Ph.D.
School
Public Policy and Administration
Advisor
Victor Ferreros
Abstract
The state of Maryland has been unsuccessful in achieving its goal of registering all of its population as organ donors. The purpose of this correlational study was to understand if allowing registered donors to remain anonymous would increase donor registration rates.
The theoretical foundation of this study was the theory of planned behavior. Data were collected from the Motor Vehicle Administration of Maryland and the Division of Motor Vehicle of Virginia. The data were analyzed using regression displacement, interrupted time series analysis, auto correlation analysis, and Arima Box Jenkins methodology. According to the study findings, offering the option to remain anonymous and registering to be an organ donor with no heart icon on the driver's license did not have the immediate effect of encouraging more people to register as an organ donor. Parameter estimates from an Arima autoregression analysis did suggest that the impact of the removal of the heart icon may have a delayed impact, although data availability limited attempts at further investigation.
Recommended Citation
Gerlach, Laura A., "Increasing Organ Donations in Maryland: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis" (2018). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 5707.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5707
