Actitud y conocimiento sobre donación de órganos de estudiantes de medicina de una universidad pública del noreste de México
| Autor: | Elda Karina Guerra-Sáenz, Ricardo García-Cabello, Antonio Ríos-Zambudio, Gerardo del Carmen Palacios-Saucedo, Oralia Barboza-Quintana, Anna Karen Vargas-Yamanaka, Maria Jose Sebastian-Ruiz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Descriptive statistics General Medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Transplantation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Family medicine medicine Public university 030212 general & internal medicine Organ donation Positive attitude Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Gaceta de M�xico. 153 |
| ISSN: | 0016-3813 |
| Popis: | Objective To evaluate the knowledge and attitude towards organ donation of medicine students of a Northwestern Mexico public university. Materials and methods A prolective, descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional study. A 34 items cross-sectional survey evaluating knowledge and attitude towards organ donation in 3,056 medicine students during 2013-2015. Descriptive statistics were used as absolute frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation, as well as the Chi-square test. A p Results 74% of students would donate their own organs, mainly due to reciprocity (41%). 26% of students would not donate, 48% of them because of fear that their organs could be taken before death. 86% would donate organs from a relative. 64% have spoken about organ donation and transplantation with their family and 67% with friends. 50% said they had received no information about it. 68% understand the concept of brain death. Conclusion Students received little information about organ donation during college. Despite that, most of them showed a positive attitude and are willing to donate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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