Attitude and Impact Factors Toward Organ Transplantation and Donation Among Transplantation Nurses in China

Study of knowledge and attitude of nurses in Sanandaj city toward organ donation

“…Research results of Xie and et al (2017) also indicated that 34.4% of nurses said they donated their organs after death and only 38.2% wished to register in the organ donation system (25).…”

Cultural barriers to organ donation among Chinese and Korean individuals in the United States: a systematic review

“…In mainland China, the expressed willingness varied greatly between region and study population, ranged from 38.9% to 81.9%. [26,28,31,32,[36][37][38][39][40] The expressed willingness to donate was 38.9%, 39.7%, 53.5%, and 73% among the surveyed public in Changsha city, East China, Hunan province, and Beijing city, respectively; 42.2% among general nurses and 33.4% among transplantation nurses; 64.2% among doctors; 62.7% among transplant patients and 50.7% among patients' caregivers; and 64.1% among university students and 81.9% among medical students [26,28,31,32,[36][37][38][39][40]. When both expressed willingness and registration rate were examined, 61.3% of the surveyed mainland college students expressed willingness to donate but only 3% of them had actually signed an organ donor card [36].…”

“…When surveyed, 61.4% of the Chinese public reported not knowing much about organ donation, and when tested, <50% were able to accurately answer questions about organ allocation [26,31]. Even medical and nursing students and health-care professionals in China were shown to have limited knowledge regarding organ donation [27,28,37,39,46]. Hong Kong nursing students and medical students in clinical clerkships were only able to answer approximately two-thirds of the questions on organ donation assessment accurately, but this was already better than preclinical medical students who were only able to answer a third of the questions correctly [27,46].…”

“…This is probably related to the near-complete absence of education about organ donation in the medical curriculum. Only 22.4% physicians and 39.7% transplantation nurses reported ever having taken training courses about organ donation, while more than three quarters (77.1%) of health-care professionals would like to receive more training [28,39].…”

“…Among the Chinese Canadians interviewed, most thought that organ donation was a personal decision, and it would be difficult to make this decision on behalf of the family member [24]. Lower expressed willingness to donate relatives' body when compared to donating one's own had been demonstrated in several studies among both Chinese and Koreans (China 38.85% vs. 16.07%, 33.4% vs. 28.2%, Hong Kong 50% vs. 42%, Korean 60.9% vs. 38.1%) [26,30,35,39]. The main reason for refusal to donate family's body was uncertainty of the wishes of the deceased person [35].…”