Community Based Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude of General Population towards Organ Donation.
| Autor: | Rani, Seema, Mishra, Alka, Dagar, Neha |
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SAMPLE size (Statistics)
RURAL conditions CROSS-sectional method CONSUMER attitudes COMMUNITY health services QUANTITATIVE research COMMUNITIES INTERVIEWING KIDNEY transplantation HEALTH literacy EYE DESCRIPTIVE statistics QUESTIONNAIRES CHI-squared test METROPOLITAN areas JUDGMENT sampling STATISTICAL correlation DATA analysis software ORGAN donation RELIGION EDUCATIONAL attainment |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Nursing Education; Oct-Dec2020, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p117-123, 7p |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: Organ donation is the process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person (the organ donor) and placing it into another person (the recipient). The study was conducted in urban and rural communities of Delhi to assess the knowledge and attitude of general population towards organ donation. Methodology: Quantitative approach and cross -sectional study design was used for conducting the study. Purposive non-probability sampling technique was adopted to select the communities and the sample and the sample size was 1089. Structured knowledge and attitude interview schedules were used to assess the knowledge and attitude respectively regarding organ donation. Data was collected in home settings from people above 18 years of age. Data was collected regarding background variables of study subjects and their knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation. Result: Sample characteristics revealed that 59.5% of respondents were females, 64%) were in the age group of 18 to 35 years, 84.7% followed Hindu religion and 63.6% were educated up to secondary level or above. Majority of subjects (78.6%) were aware that organ can be donated to save life of another person, while 38.8% subjects knew that organs can be donated both during life and after death. Majority of subjects were aware that only eyes (76.7%) and kidney (63.5%) can be donated. Overall about 10.8% had good knowledge and 55.5% had average knowledge about organ donation. Age, gender and education had statically significant association with knowledge regarding organ donation with p-value less than 0.05. Majority (83.2%) had in appropriate attitude towards organ donation. Statistically there was no significant association between level of attitude with background variables namely age, gender, religion and education. Conclusion: The findings of study revealed that general population had average knowledge about the organ donation, but inappropriate attitude towards organ donation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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