Attitudes of Turkish university employees and their relatives towards whole body and organ donation
| Autor: | H Öktem, Ayse Canan Yazici Guvercin, Ayla Kurkcuoglu, Can Pelin, Rifat Vedat Yildirim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Employment Male 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Tissue and Organ Procurement Turkey Universities Attitude of Health Personnel Turkish Organ transplantation Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Body donation Sex Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Spirituality Organ donation Socioeconomic status Aged Aged 80 and over Marital Status Age Factors General Medicine Middle Aged language.human_language Religion 030104 developmental biology Donation Family medicine language Educational Status Marital status Female 030101 anatomy & morphology Anatomy Psychology Whole body Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger. 229:151426 |
| ISSN: | 0940-9602 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.aanat.2019.151426 |
| Popis: | Background Dissection of human anatomic specimens still keeps its importance in medical curriculum. Experiences of medical students in the anatomy laboratory and the time they spent there makes them feel as doctors at the beginning of their education and helps them to get used to the notion of death. Unfortunately, the number of human body donors available for medical research and education as well as organ transplantation is limited. Obtaining human anatomic specimens continues being a great problem especially in middle-east countries. Religious factors, socioeconomic status, education, marital status or age are probably the main factors those effect body donations. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the attitudes of Turkish university employees and their relatives towards whole body donation and organ donation. Methods A total of 780 questionnaires taken from the participants were evaluated. All the participants were academic and administrative staff from four different universities based in Ankara, Eskisehir, Istanbul and Adana and their relatives. Participants were between the ages of 18–85. All the subjects were provided a questionnaire composed of 38 questions. Findings 26.2% of the individuals declared that they could donate their body for medical education while 73.8% of them did not. In contrast, 69.1% of the participants were willing for being organ donors. Of the ones who had accepted to donate their organs, 64.5% refused to donate their bodies. Conclusion The results of this study indicate that not only whole body donation, but also organ donation continue being a problem in Turkey. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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