Hejazi Sima Sadat, Nikbakht Shima, Jouybari Leila, Abadi Mehdi Hares, Davoodi Davood, Azizi Tooba Hoseini, Yahyaei Sepideh
M.Sc. of Critical Care Nursing, Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Bojnurd Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.
M.Sc. Student of Health Services Management, Shirvan Faculty of Nursing and Emam Khomeini Hospital, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.
Electron Physician. 2017 Jul 25;9(7):4746-4752. doi: 10.19082/4746. eCollection 2017 Jul.
Organ donation in Iran is common. Bojnurd (North Khorasan, Iran) is a multi-ethnic city, and people with different religions and cultures live together and that could be associated with their behavior and attitude towards health-related issues. So far, no study has taken place on brain death and organ donation in the province of North Khorasan.
The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes of citizens of Bojnurd toward brain death and organ donation.
This cross-sectional study was conducted from March to September 2014, on 380 Bojnurd citizens who were selected through multi-stage sampling. The tool was a researcher-made questionnaire in three parts (demographic information, awareness and attitude surveys), containing 10 questions on awareness and 18 questions on attitude. The questionnaire validity and reliability were confirmed by content validity and Cronbach's alpha (0.76). The data were analyzed by using SPSS version 16, using Chi-square, independent-samples t-test, and Spearman correlation coefficient. Significance level was set at p<0.05.
Three hundred and eighty participants with the average age of 29.91±9.32 were studied, of which 55% were female. The average score of awareness and attitude was 11.42 (±2.40) and 39.8 (±6.01) respectively. The awareness of the majority of the people (63%) regarding organ donation was moderate and the attitude toward organ donation in the majority (74.1%) was poor. In people with poor attitudes, awareness was also lower, and this was statistically significant (p=0.047).
the attitude towards organ donation was negative in the majority of the citizens. In order to correct the beliefs, develop positive attitude and increase citizens' knowledge, public education is essential.
器官捐赠在伊朗很普遍。博季努尔（伊朗北呼罗珊省）是一个多民族城市，不同宗教和文化背景的人们共同生活，这可能与他们对健康相关问题的行为和态度有关。迄今为止，北呼罗珊省尚未开展关于脑死亡和器官捐赠的研究。
本研究旨在确定博季努尔市居民对脑死亡和器官捐赠的知识及态度。
本横断面研究于2014年3月至9月进行，通过多阶段抽样选取了380名博季努尔市居民。研究工具是一份由研究者编制的问卷，分为三个部分（人口统计学信息、认知和态度调查），包含10个关于认知的问题和18个关于态度的问题。该问卷的效度和信度通过内容效度和克朗巴哈系数（0.76）得以确认。使用SPSS 16版软件进行数据分析，采用卡方检验、独立样本t检验和斯皮尔曼相关系数。显著性水平设定为p<0.05。
对380名平均年龄为29.91±9.32岁的参与者进行了研究，其中55%为女性。认知和态度的平均得分分别为11.42（±2.40）和39.8（±6.01）。大多数人（63%）对器官捐赠的认知中等，大多数人（74.1%）对器官捐赠的态度较差。态度较差的人群中，认知水平也较低，且具有统计学显著性（p=0.047）。
大多数市民对器官捐赠的态度消极。为了纠正观念、培养积极态度并增加市民的知识，开展公众教育至关重要。
