Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria.
Anat Sci Educ. 2014 Jan-Feb;7(1):56-63. doi: 10.1002/ase.1370. Epub 2013 May 6.
The psychosocial impact of human dissection on the lives of medical and health science students has been noted. To assess the impact of the dissection room experience on one's willingness to become a whole body and organ donor, the attitudes of 1,350 students and professionals from the medical, health, and non-health related disciplines to body and organ donation were studied. The participants were broken into categories according to degree of exposure to human dissection. Participants who were never exposed to the dissection experience showed more willingness to donate their bodies than those who were exposed. With the exception of the physiotherapy department, the students and professionals from the health science departments who were exposed to the dissection room but never engaged in dissection showed the most unwillingness to donate their bodies (P < 0.001). An unwillingness to donate oneself was noted as one of the negative impacts associated with exposure to the dissection room. Willingness to donate an organ correlated positively with the level of exposure to the dissection room (P < 0.001). Most of the reasons for unwillingness were traceable to negative perceptions of the dissection room as a result of poor and disrespectful management of the human cadavers.
人体解剖对医学生活的心理社会影响已被注意到。为了评估解剖室经验对一个人成为全器官捐献者意愿的影响，研究了来自医学、健康和非健康相关学科的 1350 名学生和专业人士对遗体和器官捐献的态度。参与者根据接触人体解剖的程度分为不同类别。从未接触过解剖经验的参与者比接触过的参与者更愿意捐献自己的身体。除了理疗系外，接触过解剖室但从未参与过解剖的健康科学系学生和专业人士表现出最不愿意捐献自己身体的意愿（P<0.001）。不愿意捐献自己被认为是与接触解剖室相关的负面影响之一。愿意捐献器官与接触解剖室的程度呈正相关（P<0.001）。大多数不愿意的原因可以追溯到对解剖室的负面看法，因为人体标本的管理不善且缺乏尊重。
