Attitude of patients, the public, doctors, and nurses toward organ donation

Reddy, Anki; Guleria, Sandeep; Khazanchi, Rakesh Kumar; Bhardwaj, Mansi; Aggarwal, Sandeep; Mandal, Sohini

doi:10.1016/s0041-1345(02)03792-2

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“…The same thing happens in case of organ donation after death in our country. Due to the scarcity of stored organ in most of the organ-banks, a large number of people are in waiting list for organ transplantation [1]. Even though we know that human organs can be replaced by human organ only rather than the prosthesis, in India the concept of the body or organ donation for a novel cause is still not so much popularised.…”

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Body Donation after Death: The Mental Setup of Educated People

Saha

Sarkar

Mandal

2015

JCDR

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Body Donation after Death: The Mental Setup of Educated People

Saha

Sarkar

Mandal

2015

JCDR

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“…21,20 Highest awareness about brain death (97.5%)was observed in the doctors in another Indian study. 25 Awareness regarding brain death among medical personnel in Pakistan varied from 46% to 91.4% as per published evidence. 24,26 Worldwide published literature among the medical undergraduate students echoes the scope for understanding concept of brain death.…”

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Exploring scope for improvement in knowledge attitude and practices about organ, tissue donation and transplantation among postgraduate medical students in Mumbai, India

Uplap

Singh

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: To promote organ, tissue donation as well as transplantation well sensitized health care providers have an important role. In the view of extended period of infancy of the same in India, a study has been conducted to explore knowledge, attitude, and practices among postgraduate medical students in Mumbai.Methods: All were explained nature of the study and informed written consent was obtained from those who are willing to participate. Data was collected through self-administered questionnaire from December 2014 to February 2015 and was entered, analysed in Microsoft Excel 2012. Institutional Ethical Committee approval for this study was obtained and confidentiality was maintained in this process.Results: Out of 228 postgraduate students who were given self - administered questionnaire, 163(71.49%) participants returned back the same. There was a fair knowledge about organ and tissues which can be donated as well as transplanted in the participants. However 49.69% of the respondents knew importance of time factor for safe organ preservation and 18.4% doctors could define near relative for organ donation and transplantation. Though 61.41% of the participants could correctly define brain death, only 36.19% could correctly name all members of authorized certifying committee for brain death. Majority of the participants (99.38%) supported the concept of organ donation however only 38.03% have ever counselled patients for organ donation, 11.04% were registered organ donors and 4% carried the same. Conclusions:Postgraduate medical students lacked detailed technical and legal aspects about organ, tissue donation and transplantation which need to be strengthened.

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“…7 Many studies have documented misperceptions and attitudes of various healthcare professionals toward organ donation in various countries. 6,[8][9][10][11] The common conclusion of these studies is that people in general favor organ donation and that some education is lacking. Not surprisingly, an international survey of transplant professionals showed that 88% felt public education would positively impact organ donation worldwide.…”

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