Cantwell M, Clifford C
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, England.
J Adv Nurs. 2000 Oct;32(4):961-8.
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine nursing and medical students' attitudes towards organ and corneal donation. A sample of 72 nursing and medical degree students from a British University, completed a 61-item self-administered quantitative questionnaire, adapted by Kent and Owens (1995) from an original tool devised by Parisi and Katz (1986). The findings revealed that all but one of the respondents had an overall positive attitude towards organ donation; a significant relationship was found to exist between the extent of this positive attitude held by each student and their personal willingness to donate organs. In total, 74% of the student nurses had already signed a donor card, compared to only 43% of the medical students, and the difference in the two groups' personal commitment towards donation was significant (P = 0.005). However, this disparity between the nursing and medical students was not evident when students were questioned about personally accepting organs, for survival. Most respondents agreed that they would take some form of transplanted organ or tissue into their body, if it was needed to maintain life. Overall, the study revealed that although this group of student nurses seem to be in favour of organ donation, with many willing to sign a donor card, doubts still exist in the medical student group. Further work is required to understand this phenomena. A comparison of the data with an earlier study completed by Kent and Owens (1995) indicate that student nurses may have a more positive orientation to donation than qualified staff.
本文所报告的研究目的是调查护理专业和医学专业学生对器官及角膜捐赠的态度。来自一所英国大学的72名护理专业和医学专业学位学生参与了此项研究，他们完成了一份由肯特和欧文斯（1995年）根据帕里西和卡茨（1986年）设计的原始工具改编的、包含61个条目的自填式定量问卷。研究结果显示，除一名受访者外，所有受访者对器官捐赠总体持积极态度；研究发现，每名学生这种积极态度的程度与其个人捐赠器官的意愿之间存在显著关系。总体而言，74%的护理专业学生已经签署了捐赠卡，而医学专业学生中这一比例仅为43%，两组在个人捐赠意愿上的差异具有统计学意义（P = 0.005）。然而，当询问学生是否愿意接受器官用于生存时，护理专业和医学专业学生之间的这种差异并不明显。大多数受访者表示，如果维持生命需要，他们愿意接受某种形式的移植器官或组织植入体内。总体而言，该研究表明，尽管这群护理专业学生似乎支持器官捐赠，许多人愿意签署捐赠卡，但医学专业学生群体中仍存在疑虑。需要进一步开展工作来理解这一现象。将这些数据与肯特和欧文斯（1995年）早期完成的一项研究进行比较表明，护理专业学生可能比合格员工对捐赠持有更积极态度。
