Knowledge and Attitudes about Organ Donation among Medical Students in Egypt: A Questionnaire

Hamed, Hosam; Awad, Mohamed Elhosseny; Youssef, Khaled Nassreldin; Fouda, BahaaEldin; Nakeeb, Ayman El; Wahab, Mohamed Abdel

doi:10.4172/2161-0991.1000155

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“…In agreement with this Hamed et al (15) reported absence of association between gender and attitude of medical students toward OD. In contrast, many reports concluded that female gender was significantly associated with positive attitude towards OD (27)(28)(29).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Similar poor knowledge was reported in Pakistan where only 23% of participants knew that organs can come from both living and cadaver bodies (17). Actually, inadequate knowledge and vague conception of brainstem death always had a negative effect on OD (15). A survey on Sweden ICU nurses highlighted that they didn't trust brain death diagnosis (18).The current study also revealed that the overall perceptions about OD did not differ significantly by educational level, gender, or the family income.…”

Section: Results:-supporting

confidence: 73%

“…Additionally, they suggested free medical insurance (65.6%), money (26.7%) or awards (7.7%) as a motivation of people towards organ donation (Fig 2). .025 * There is a global shortage of donor organs in comparison to patients awaiting transplantation (14).Public knowledge and attitude is crucial to overcome the shortage of donor organs (15). So, their evaluation is essential to develop educational programs to raise the public commitment to OD.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Knowledge, Perception and Attitudes Towards Organ Donation Among General Population - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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2018

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“…In this context the results are not in agreement with those reported by Hamed H et al, from Egypt where 83% of the respondents thought there was no law regulating organ donation or didn't hear or read about the law. 14 Further the information about organ donation card was found to be very dismal as only 19.29% of the respondents knew where to obtain this card. Also 80.71% of them didn't know that organ donation card can be substituted as an emergency card.…”

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Gender based perspectives about organ donation among students in a medical school in North India

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Background: Deaths due to organ failure are reaching alarming numbers mainly due to paucity of organ donation. The medical students who are the future doctors hold promise to alleviate this paucity by willing to register as a donor themselves as well as facilitating cadaver organ donation process. Objective was to assess the perspectives (awareness and attitudes) of medical students regarding organ donation.Methods: The present cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among 280 undergraduates’ students of Government Medical College Jammu, J and K, India. A pretested and self administered 22 item questionnaire was used to collect information on socio-demographic characteristics (5), to assess awareness (11) and attitude (6) about organ donation.Results: Higher proportion of female students were aware about transplantation of human organ act (p<0.05). Awareness about organ donation card was very poor among both the sexes. Only 77.50% of the respondents were aware of the legal age for organ donation. Higher proportion of male students considered themselves to be future organ donor (p<0.05) although both the sexes wanted to be informed more on organ donation. Organ could be wasted (47.14%) was the main barrier among respondents for organ donation.Conclusions: The awareness and attitude among the respondents were found to be non-desirable on many parameters. Authors suggest introduction of a teaching module which should include all aspects of organ donation in medical schools starting from first profession onwards.

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“…6 Knowledge and attitude of health care providers towards organ donation plays a major role in promoting the concept among population. 7 The general population and the student population in particular, need to be educated about transplantation and the need to accept the commitment to donate organs. Therefore, the present study was designed to assess and compare the knowledge, attitude and practice regarding organ donation and transplantation, among medical students, based on gender, year of the course and religion.…”

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Knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation among medical students of a medical college in South India

Alex¹,

Kiran²,

Baisil³

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The shortage of organ donors is the key rate-limiting factor for organ transplantation in India. Many strategies have been proposed. One of the strategy is by improving awareness of organ donation and transplantation in the population. This study seeks to assess the knowledge and attitude of the medical students toward organ donation and transplantation. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation among medical students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 510 undergraduate medical students of K.S Hegde Medical Academy. A tool with 30 questions was designed and administered to the students, in order to assess their knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation. Data collected was analysed using SPSS software.Results: The mean age of the students was (20.21±1.32). When compared to boys, girls reported higher mean scores in knowledge (9.22±1.11); and attitude (7.32±0.81). The first year students had higher scores for their knowledge (9.46±1.28) compared to other years. The third year students showed a higher mean attitude score (1.61±1.07) (p=0.02). Hindus scored significantly higher mean knowledge, and attitude as compared to Christians and Muslims (p=0.03). There was a positive correlation between mean knowledge, and attitude of students regarding organ donation and transplantation.Conclusions: There was adequate knowledge in students but their attitude was poor. The study throws light on their inadequacies of knowledge and attitude of medical students, necessitating the inclusion of the topic in their curriculum.

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Knowledge and Attitudes about Organ Donation among Medical Students in Egypt: A Questionnaire

Abstract: Introduction: Organ transplantation (OT) is life-saving for patients with failing organs. Shortage of donor organs can be solved by raising the willingness of the population to donate organs. Health-care professionals have a fundamental role in raising the public awareness.

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The Knowledge, Perception and Attitudes Towards Organ Donation Among General Population - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Knowledge, Perception and Attitudes Towards Organ Donation Among General Population - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Gender based perspectives about organ donation among students in a medical school in North India

Knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation among medical students of a medical college in South India

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