Sayedalamin Zaid, Imran Muhammad, Almutairi Osama, Lamfon Mohammed, Alnawwar Majd, Baig Mukhtiar
Intern, Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Faculty of Medicine, Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2017 Apr;67(4):534-537.
To assess awareness and attitude of medical students about organ donation.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and comprised medical students. The participants were asked about their religious and other beliefs towards organ donation, their reasons for not donating organs, and their personal opinions about organ donation through a questionnaire. SPSS 21 was used for data analysis.
Of the 481 participants, 250(52%) were females, and 231(48%) were males. The overall mean age was 21.36±1.63 years. Besides, 437(90.9%) students knew what organ donation means, 433(90%) supported organ donation, and 90(18.7%) knew someone who had donated an organ. Moreover, 245(50.9%) participants were willing to donate their organ to their family alone, 198(41.2%) were willing to donate to any deserving patient while 439(91.3%) rejected that religion precluded organ donation, and 354(73.6%) did not know about the grafting of organs from a man to a woman and vice versa.
Awareness and attitude towards organ donation were not up to the mark among the participants.
评估医学生对器官捐赠的认知和态度。
这项横断面研究于2014年在沙特阿拉伯吉达的阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学开展,研究对象为医学生。通过问卷调查询问参与者对器官捐赠的宗教及其他信仰、不捐赠器官的原因以及他们对器官捐赠的个人看法。使用SPSS 21进行数据分析。
481名参与者中,250名(52%)为女性,231名(48%)为男性。总体平均年龄为21.36±1.63岁。此外,437名(90.9%)学生知道器官捐赠的含义,433名(90%)支持器官捐赠,90名(18.7%)认识捐赠过器官的人。而且,245名(50.9%)参与者仅愿意将自己的器官捐赠给家人,198名(41.2%)愿意捐赠给任何有需要的患者,439名(91.3%)否认宗教禁止器官捐赠,354名(73.6%)不知道男性与女性之间器官移植的情况。
参与者对器官捐赠的认知和态度未达标准。