Attitudes and behaviors regarding organ donation: a study on officials of religion in Turkey
| Autor: | Melis Naçar, Fevziye Çetinkaya, Emel Güden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Tissue and Organ Procurement Adolescent Turkey MEDLINE Young Adult Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans Organ donation Young adult General Nursing Mass media Response rate (survey) Motivation business.industry Public health Religion and Medicine Religious studies General Medicine Middle Aged Tissue Donors Transplantation Donation Family medicine Female business Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of religion and health. 52(2) |
| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes and behaviors of religious scholars regarding organ donation and transplantation. In this study, 540 officials working in the Department of Religious Affairs in Kayseri, Turkey, were included. Overall, 86.6% response rate (n = 468) was achieved. Although a majority of the officials of religion in this study stated that they believed in the importance of organ donation (90.8%), the rate of considering donation (57.9%) and the donation rate (1.1%) were found to be substantially low. There is a difference between the employment status and willingness to donate organs. The rate of willingness to donate was significantly high in men than women. And also was high in imams and preachers. Regarding the sources of information, the majority of the respondents (70.0%) cited mass media. Overall, 15.3% cited school education and 42.0% religious publications. The most common question (83.1%) that was asked was "whether or not organ donation was suitable for Muslim religious". Our study revealed that although the research groups have positive ideas about organ donation and transplantation, their role was low in informing and motivating people about organ donation and transplantation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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