Kim Jung-Ran Theresa, Fisher Murray J, Elliott Doug
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2006 Aug;26(6):465-74. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2006.01.003. Epub 2006 Mar 15.
Organ donation from brain dead patients is a contentious issue in Korea within the cultural context of Confucian beliefs. Each year thousands of patients wait for organ donation note poor donation rates and importance of nurses in identifying potential donors. It is therefore important to identify knowledge levels and attitudes towards organ donation from brain dead patients of nursing students as future health workers. Using a 38-item instrument previously developed by the researchers, 292 undergraduate students in a Korean nursing college were surveyed in 2003 in Korea (response rate 92%). Validity and reliability of the instrument was demonstrated using a multiple analytical approach. A lack of knowledge regarding diagnostic tests and co-morbid factors of brain death were noted among students. Their attitudes toward organ donation were somewhat mixed and ambiguous, but overall they were positive and willing to be a potential donor in the future. While this study identified that an effective educational program is necessary for nursing students in Korea to improve their knowledge of brain death and organ donation, further research is also required to verify these single-site findings and improve the generalisability of results.
在韩国儒家信仰的文化背景下，脑死亡患者的器官捐赠是一个有争议的问题。每年都有成千上万的患者等待器官捐赠，而捐赠率较低，护士在识别潜在捐赠者方面的作用至关重要。因此，作为未来的卫生工作者，了解护理专业学生对脑死亡患者器官捐赠的知识水平和态度非常重要。2003年，研究人员使用之前开发的一份包含38个条目的问卷，对韩国一所护理学院的292名本科生进行了调查（回复率92%）。通过多种分析方法证明了该问卷的有效性和可靠性。学生们对脑死亡的诊断测试和合并症因素缺乏了解。他们对器官捐赠的态度有些复杂和模糊，但总体上是积极的，并且愿意在未来成为潜在的捐赠者。虽然这项研究表明，韩国的护理专业学生需要一个有效的教育项目来提高他们对脑死亡和器官捐赠的认识，但还需要进一步的研究来验证这些单中心的研究结果，并提高结果的普遍性。
