Elsafi S H, Al-Adwani M M, Al-Jubran K M, Abu Hassan M M, Al Zahrani E M
Clinical Laboratory Science Department, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Clinical Laboratory Science Department, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Transplant Proc. 2017 Jul-Aug;49(6):1215-1220. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.03.085.
There has been an increase in the number of patients waiting for organ transplantation.
A questionnaire on knowledge and attitude toward organ donation was completed by 434 allied health students.
Overall knowledge about the various aspects of organ donation was adequate and was higher among women and clinical students. Although the majority were willing to be living donors for their families, very few students supported deceased organ donation, and even fewer of them had thought about an organ donation card. Despite the good knowledge, an overall positive attitude toward deceased donation was held by only 44% of the students. In contrast, the attitude toward directed living organ donation to family members was favorable in 83.1% of the respondents, which seems to be influenced by cultural and sociodemographic factors. Our findings indicate that the most frequent cause of refusal to donate organs among students with negative attitudes was the mistrust of medical staff regarding brain death diagnosis (49.9%), followed by bodily concerns (18.1%) and religion (9.9%). Quite a few of our respondents supported commercial donation, which was attributed to the less knowledgeable groups. Respondents who were willing to donate organs indicated that the reason was for helping others and sympathy. This study identified that the main source of information about organ donation for the respondents was television, followed by relatives/friends and the internet.
The misconception of the students toward deceased donation needs to be improved by integrating the concepts of brain death within the curriculum of allied health students.
等待器官移植的患者数量有所增加。
434名健康相关专业学生完成了一份关于器官捐赠知识和态度的问卷。
学生们对器官捐赠各方面的总体知识储备充足，女性和临床专业学生的知识储备更高。虽然大多数人愿意为家人成为活体捐赠者，但很少有学生支持死后器官捐赠，甚至更少有人考虑过办理器官捐赠卡。尽管知识储备良好，但只有44%的学生对死后捐赠持总体积极态度。相比之下，83.1%的受访者对定向活体器官捐赠给家庭成员持赞成态度，这似乎受到文化和社会人口因素的影响。我们的研究结果表明，持消极态度的学生拒绝捐赠器官的最常见原因是对医务人员脑死亡诊断的不信任（49.9%），其次是对身体的担忧（18.1%）和宗教因素（9.9%）。相当一部分受访者支持商业捐赠，这主要出现在知识水平较低的群体中。愿意捐赠器官的受访者表示，原因是帮助他人和出于同情。本研究确定，受访者关于器官捐赠的主要信息来源是电视，其次是亲戚/朋友和互联网。
需要通过将脑死亡概念纳入健康相关专业学生的课程，来纠正学生对死后捐赠的误解。
