The Audiovisual Creation in Educational Proposals on Organ Donation: Attitude Towards Organ Donation and Transplantation of Secondary School Teachers.

BACKGROUND

Audiovisual creation allows teachers and students to become consumers and producers of information, creating collaborative environments. In the field of organ donation and transplantation (ODT), most of the educational proposals analyzed to date consist of presentations. The teacher does not usually have a decisive role in this type of methodologies, in addition to not having the appropriate training to be able to participate actively.

OBJECTIVES

To analyze the change in teachers' attitudes towards ODT after participating in an educational proposal based on the creation of short films.

METHODS

Teachers of secondary education in ten schools in southeastern Spain. The proposal consisted in the creation of short films based on topics related to ODT by the students. A validated ODT attitude form was administered to teachers at the beginning of the proposal and at the end of the proposal. A descriptive analysis was carried out together with McNemar test was used to compare the pre and post test results of the teacher. P < .05 was considered statiscally significant.

RESULTS

The favorable attitude towards organ donation at death increased after the proposal (64% vs 88%; P = .008). Favorable attitude towards organ donation from a relative also improved (52% vs 76%; P = .008), as did favorable attitude towards living kidney donation (52% vs 88%; P < .001), living liver donation (36% vs 85%; P = .008) and xenotransplantation (45% vs 82%; P < .001).

CONCLUSIONS

The teachers improves after an educational proposal based on the creation of short films related to ODT.