“Sharing Hope and Healing”: A Culturally Tailored Social Media Campaign to Promote Living Kidney Donation and Transplantation Among Native Americans

• Published in: Health promotion practice Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 786 - 795
• Main Authors: Britt, Rebecca K., Britt, Brian C., Anderson, Jenn, Fahrenwald, Nancy, Harming, Shana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2021; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: American Indians; Blood & organ donations; Campaigns; Community based action research; Donations; Healing; Health promotion; Kidney diseases; Kidney transplants; Native North Americans; Participatory research; Social media; Social networks; Stakeholders; Tribal leaders; social media campaign; community-based participatory research; Native American communities; living kidney donation and transplantation
• ISSN: 1524-8399; 1552-6372
• DOI: 10.1177/1524839920974580

In this article, the authors discuss a community-based participatory research (CBPR)–driven and culturally tailored social media campaign to promote living kidney donation and transplantation (LKDT) serving Native American communities, who are disproportionately burdened by kidney failure. The effort represents a collaboration among researchers, tribal leaders and community members, medical centers, and other stakeholders to facilitate health promotion related to LKDT among the broader Native American community. Campaign objectives were collaboratively established by the researchers and stakeholders, and the campaign approach and materials were likewise developed in consultation with the community. The results indicated that the use of success stories about LKDT within campaign materials was a statistically significant predictors of heightened campaign engagement (p = .003, β = .223). Recommendations are offered for partnering with tribal communities and other stakeholders, as well as for building tailored health promotion strategies.