General Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Organ Donation in a Sample of Mexican Medical and Nursing Students (original) (raw)
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2021
Organ donation is the process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person (the organ donor) and placing it into another person (the recipient). Transplantation is necessary because the recipient's organ has failed or has been damaged by disease or injury, a benevolent human act, has become a medical tool that has helped many people who would have died by diseases. However, this medical action involves concepts that the human being has always been intrigued by life and death, concepts that generate the debate on the acceptance and the refusal to donate organs of a deceased family member. <strong>Objective:</strong> The objective of this work was to determine the co-education level on organ donation among university students. <strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a cross-sectional study of 80 undergraduate students from Nursing and Accounting courses of the Catholic University of Cuenca, Ecuador to determine their knowledge around the topic o...
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Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude toward organ donation of medicine students of a Northeastern Mexico public university. Methods: This was a prolective, descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional study. A 34 items cross-sectional survey evaluating knowledge and attitude toward organ donation in 3056 medicine students during 2013-2015. Descriptive statistics were used as absolute frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation, as well as the Chi-square test. p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: About 74% of students would donate their own organs, mainly due to reciprocity (41%). 26% of students would not donate, 48% of them due to fear that their organs could be taken before death. 86% would donate organs from a relative. 64% have spoken about organ donation and transplantation with their family and 67% with friends. 50% said they had received no information about it. 68% understand the concept of brain death. Conclusion: Students received little information about organ donation during college. Despite that, most of them showed a positive attitude and are willing to donate.
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