Children's Acute Care, Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
Clin Transplant. 2014 Feb;28(2):192-7. doi: 10.1111/ctr.12296. Epub 2013 Dec 24.
We aimed to assess the willingness of Muslim Americans to be potential organ donors, to describe potential religious barriers to organ donation, and to evaluate the efficacy of a brief religious educational intervention.
Face-to-face survey with English-, Arabic-, and Urdu-speaking Muslim American adults in places of worship and gatherings. The two-part survey included questions about demographics and organ donation. A brief educational intervention followed, which included an explanation of organ donation, along with the evidence for Islam's support for organ donation. After this intervention, the questions about organ donation and brain death were repeated.
The response rate was 81% (231 of 285). Fifty percent of the respondents would donate their organs. Twenty-five percent changed their opinion and accepted the idea of being donors after the educational intervention. Lack of awareness of the support of Islam to organ donation and fear of disfigurement were the most common barriers cited.
Muslim Americans are less likely than Caucasian Americans to be organ donors, and the perceived lack of support from Islam for organ donation is a factor. The effectiveness of our brief religious education intervention suggests that further education may improve organ donation rates among the Muslim community.
我们旨在评估穆斯林美国人成为潜在器官捐献者的意愿，描述潜在的与宗教相关的器官捐献障碍，并评估简短宗教教育干预的效果。
在礼拜场所和聚会上，对讲英语、阿拉伯语和乌尔都语的穆斯林美国成年人进行面对面调查。这份两部分的调查问卷包括关于人口统计学和器官捐献的问题。之后，我们进行了简短的教育干预，其中包括对器官捐献的解释，以及伊斯兰教支持器官捐献的证据。干预结束后，我们重复了关于器官捐献和脑死亡的问题。
应答率为 81%（231 名受访者中的 285 名）。有 50%的受访者愿意捐献自己的器官。25%的人在接受教育干预后改变了主意，接受了成为捐赠者的想法。缺乏对伊斯兰教支持器官捐献的认识和对容貌受损的恐惧是最常提到的障碍。
与白种美国人相比，穆斯林美国人成为器官捐献者的可能性较小，而伊斯兰教对器官捐献缺乏支持的看法是一个因素。我们的简短宗教教育干预措施是有效的，这表明进一步的教育可能会提高穆斯林社区的器官捐献率。
