Department of Surgical and Transplantation Nursing and Extracorporeal Treatment, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Transplant Proc. 2021 Jul-Aug;53(6):1784-1791. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.03.009. Epub 2021 Apr 20.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a method of treatment in many diseases, including oncology. For a large group of patients, such a therapy is a procedure that saves their health and life. Most of the transplants come from unrelated donors, which are still insufficient in comparison to the recipients in need. The purpose of the study to assess the knowledge, opinions, and attitudes of students of Warsaw universities toward hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
The survey was conducted among 351 students of Warsaw universities. The research method was a diagnostic survey, and the tool was the author's questionnaire. The statistical analysis was performed using the StatSoft Statistica 13.1 PL statistical package and Microsoft Office package.
The respondents answered correctly on an average 59% of the analyzed issues. Medical students older than 25 and women had a higher level of knowledge; 41.6% of respondents were registered in the donor database, and this more often referred to medical students (P < .0001). The motivation for registering (97.3%) was the willingness to help another person. The unregistered reported that their lack of a decision on registration, among others, was because their general health condition made it impossible to become a donor (34.6%) or they had insufficient knowledge (31.7%)-this more often referred to nonmedical students (P < .0001). In addition, 55% of students would be interested in attending a meeting/lecture at their university about being a potential donor (including 63.1% of medical and 44.9% of nonmedical students).
The knowledge of the surveyed students was at an average level, and the opinions and attitudes were mostly favorable. It seems that the organization of meetings on bone marrow donation at universities could enable a larger number of undecided students to decide to enter into the donor register.
造血干细胞移植是许多疾病（包括肿瘤学）的治疗方法。对于一大群患者来说，这种治疗方法是拯救他们健康和生命的一种手段。大多数移植来自无关供体，与需要的受者相比，这仍然不足。本研究旨在评估华沙大学学生对造血干细胞移植的知识、意见和态度。
该调查在华沙大学的 351 名学生中进行。研究方法是诊断性调查，工具是作者的问卷。统计分析使用 StatSoft Statistica 13.1 PL 统计软件包和 Microsoft Office 软件包进行。
被调查者平均答对了分析问题的 59%。年龄超过 25 岁和女性的医学生知识水平更高；41.6%的受访者已在供体数据库中注册，而这更多地发生在医学生中（P <.0001）。注册的动机（97.3%）是愿意帮助他人。未注册的人表示，他们没有决定注册，部分原因是他们的总体健康状况使他们无法成为供体（34.6%）或他们缺乏知识（31.7%）——这更多地发生在非医学生中（P <.0001）。此外，55%的学生有兴趣参加他们大学举办的关于成为潜在供体的会议/讲座（包括 63.1%的医学生和 44.9%的非医学生）。
被调查学生的知识水平处于平均水平，意见和态度大多是积极的。似乎在大学组织关于骨髓捐赠的会议可以使更多未决定的学生决定加入供体登记册。
