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Survey of medical students’ attitudes, religious beliefs, and knowledge of organ donation
Summary - We aimed to measure medical students’ attitudes to organ donation and transplantation. Health care providers’ attitudes and beliefs can influence public willingness to donate organ for transplantation. What do medical students think about organ donation as future healthcare professionals? We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 143 medical students to evaluate their attitude toward organ donation and transplantation at a medical faculty. We administered a 17 item questionnaire that included items on knowledge of organ donation, attitude, beliefs and demographics. We found 42.7% of the respondents indicated that their religion restricts donation. Students were more willing to donate their own organs (39.9%) than those of their deceased relatives (4.2%). 85.3% of respondents believe organ donation is important and honourable for humanity. Although cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery and reanimation specialists are needed to determine brain death, 64.3% of students were afraid of the wrong decision on the status declared as brain death. More than 55% of respondents want to be buried without disfigurement. The results of our research suggest that a new medical education program is needed for better equipped future healthcare professionals. Today’s medical students will be the first to establish a relationship with a potential donor’s family in order to improve their attitudes towards organ donation issues.
Knowledge and Attitudes about Organ Donation Among Medical Students
In almost every country, the organ supply for transplantation does not match the increasing demand; health professionals may play an important role in eliminating barriers and increasing organ donation. Therefore, assessing medical students’ knowledge and attitudes regarding organ donation is important for the future organ supply. Some 409 of 508 first- and second-year medical students answered an anonymous, multiple-choice questionnaire about demographic variables, knowledge about transplant issues, and willingness to donate organs. The mean age was 20.3±1.8 years (range: 17 to 29 years); 50.1% were male, 49.9% were female. Some 44.8% of the total respondents reported that they had sufficient knowledge about organ donation, and 40.1% reported knowledge about organ transplantation. The primary source of their knowledge was reported as the media (72.1%). Willingness to donate their own organs was 58.4% and willingness as to their relatives’ organs was 39.9%. The acceptance of live or...
Organ donation: Perception among medical students
IP innovative publication pvt. ltd, 2019
Introduction: Lack of human organ for transplantation is a worldwide issue as the need of transplants is higher than the availability. People often do not have all the information they need to decide on donating an organ nor do they have a clear understanding of the donation process. Lack of information and religious beliefs are the major causes of opposing organ donation. There are certain misconceptions and lack of knowledge in people for organ donation which must be addressed properly by government and healthcare professionals. Health care providers play a key role in educating the public and act as critical link to engage the community members in spreading the awareness of organ donation to the public. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to understand the awareness, attitude and knowledge about organ donation among medical students. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 600 undergraduate medical students of Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. A structured questionnaire was used to assess perception towards organ donation. A convenient sampling method was employed and all students who consented orally and were willing to participate by filling the questionnaire were enrolled into the study. Result: About 99% of the students were aware of organ donation out of which 77.5% were willing to donate their organs. We found that most of the students 93.5% had perception that organ donation save someone’s life. In the study about 81% of the students said that their religion allows for organ donation whereas the remaining of the students had no idea regarding religious view about organ donation. Conclusion: The awareness on organ donation among an undergraduate medical student is high. Few students are unwilling to donate their organs because of psychological anxiety. Educational institute are most effective in providing knowledge of organ donation to the medical students.
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There has been an increase in the number of patients waiting for organ transplantation. A questionnaire on knowledge and attitude toward organ donation was completed by 434 allied health students. Overall knowledge about the various aspects of organ donation was adequate and was higher among women and clinical students. Although the majority were willing to be living donors for their families, very few students supported deceased organ donation, and even fewer of them had thought about an organ donation card. Despite the good knowledge, an overall positive attitude toward deceased donation was held by only 44% of the students. In contrast, the attitude toward directed living organ donation to family members was favorable in 83.1% of the respondents, which seems to be influenced by cultural and sociodemographic factors. Our findings indicate that the most frequent cause of refusal to donate organs among students with negative attitudes was the mistrust of medical staff regarding brai...
Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Organ Donation among Medical Students
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Gaceta de M�xico
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.
Knowledge and Attitude Towards Organ Donation Among Medical Students
Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 2021
Objective: To analyze the knowledge and attitude among medical students regarding organ donation. Study design: A cross sectional study Placement and Duration: The study was conducted during the period of six months from September 2019 to March 2020 at Azra Naheed Medical College Lahore. Materials and Methods: Sample size was 150 a predesigned close ended questionnaire was used to collect data, out of which 8 incomplete questionnaires were excluded. SPSS version 21 was used to analyze the data. Results: Overall, 130 respondents were aware of the term organ donation out of which 74 wish to donate their organs. The main barriers related to organ donation during life and after death include mainly religious beliefs, fear of surgical procedures, misconception that they cannot donate because of some medical illness, having a cultural belief that the body should be kept intact after death or having a fear that their body will be disfigured after donating an organ. 90.8% respondents believe that there is a need to promote organ donation. Greater load of information come from social media. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is a need to promote organ donation. Identified barriers should be taken in the account while motivating the population to donate in future.
Knowledge and ethical perception regarding organ donation among medical students
BMC Medical Ethics, 2013
Background: To determine the knowledge and ethical perception regarding organ donation amongst medical students in Karachi-Pakistan. Methods: Data of this cross sectional study was collected by self administered questionnaire from MBBS students of Ziauddin University from 2010 to 2011. Sample size of 158 (83 First years and 75 Fourth years) were selected by convenient sampling and those students who were present and gave consent were included in the study. The data was analyzed by SPSS version 20. Results: A total of 158 participants from Ziauddin Medical University filled out the questionnaire out of which 83 (52.5%) were first years and 75(47.5%) were fourth year medical students. Mean age of sample was 20 ± 1.7. Majority of students were aware about organ donation with print and electronic media as the main source of information. 81.6% agreed that it was ethically correct to donate an organ. In the students' opinion, most commonly donated organs and tissues were kidney, cornea, blood and platelet. Ideal candidates for donating organ were parents (81%). Regarding list of options for preference to receive an organ, most of the students agreed on young age group patients and persons with family. Willingness to donate was significantly associated with knowledge of allowance of organ donation in religion (P=0.000). Conclusion: Both 1st year and 4th year students are aware of Organ Donation, but there is a significant lack of knowledge regarding the topic.
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Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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Perceptions of Medical Students in a Government Medical College Towards Organ Donation
Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare, 2015
Organ transplantation is considered one of the greatest advances of modern science that has given many patients a renewed lease of life. Assessing the medical student's knowledge, attitude and perception regarding organ donation is very important for future organ supply as they are the future doctors who needs to motivate the public to pledge their organs for donation. AIM & OBJECTIVES: 1) To study the knowledge and attitude of the medical students towards organ donation. 2) To understand the perceptions of medical students regarding organ donation. STUDY DESIGN: A cross sectional study of descriptive nature. STUDY SETTING: Study was conducted at Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam. METHODS AND MATERIALS: The study was done among 123 medical students of 9 th semester using a semi-structured questionnaire. Knowledge was assessed by giving score to the responses. Those obtaining a score of 50% or above were considered as having adequate knowledge. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Data was entered in MS excel and analysed using SPSS student version 21. RESULTS: Overall 56 % of students were found to have adequate knowledge. Around one fourth of the study population knew about the various organs which can be donated (26%) and about the minimum duration of organ survival (27.6%). Around 48.8% students showed positive attitude towards organ donation and wanted to donate their organs. CONCLUSION: It has been found in the study about the gaps in the knowledge levels of medical students about organ donation. These findings draw attention to a need to review medical school curricula to ensure that they contain sufficient teaching on organ donation, with a focus on information needed by physicians to maximize donation rates. This can be utilized as a strategy for the shortage of donor organs for transplantation.