Walker J A, McGrath P J, MacDonald N E, Wells G, Petrusic W, Nolan B E
University of Ottawa, Ont.
CMAJ. 1990 Jun 15;142(12):1383-7.
We conducted a telephone survey of parents in the National Capital Region to assess their intention to donate their child's organs and to provide physicians with information that could help alleviate their concerns about approaching parents for consent. Of 339 parents who agreed to answer questions after being given details of their child's "death" 288 (85%) said that they would be willing to donate their child's organs. The degree of willingness was associated with the certainty of death, altruism and empathy toward children in need of an organ, previous discussion of organ donation with a family member and knowledge of an adolescent or adult child's attitude toward donation. Factors that inhibited the intention to donate included uncertainty of death, insufficient information from medical professionals and fear of multilation. The child's age was not significantly associated with intention to donate. Concordance between the results and actual donation rates in Canada and the United States supports the generalizability of the survey findings.
我们对国家首都地区的家长进行了一项电话调查，以评估他们捐赠孩子器官的意愿，并向医生提供有助于减轻他们向家长寻求同意时的担忧的信息。在339名在得知孩子“死亡”细节后同意回答问题的家长中，288名（85%）表示他们愿意捐赠孩子的器官。意愿程度与死亡的确定性、利他主义以及对需要器官的儿童的同理心、之前与家庭成员就器官捐赠进行的讨论以及对青少年或成年子女捐赠态度的了解有关。抑制捐赠意愿的因素包括死亡的不确定性、医疗专业人员提供的信息不足以及对毁伤的恐惧。孩子的年龄与捐赠意愿没有显著关联。该结果与加拿大和美国实际捐赠率之间的一致性支持了调查结果的普遍性。
