What Reasons Lead Spanish Medical Students Not to Be in Favor of Organ Donation?
| Autor: | Jorge Iriarte, Ana I. López-Navas, F. J. Llorca, Pascual Parrilla, M. T. de Jesús, Alberto Lana, J. Carrillo, José Yélamos, Antonio Ríos, P. R. Gutiérrez, J. A. Bondía, F. J. Gómez, Ángel Asúnsolo, Juan Ramón Hernández Hernández, Rafael Herruzo, P. Sánchez, A. Fernández, L. Martínez Alarcón, J. Virseda, Lidia Fuentes, Pablo Ramírez, Á. Sánchez, Gerardo Blanco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical Tissue and Organ Procurement Universities media_common.quotation_subject education Population Inmunología MEDLINE Assessment instrument Young Adult Cirugía Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Assertiveness Organ donation media_common Transplantation education.field_of_study Academic year Geographic area Organ Transplantation Trasplante de órganos Spain Donation Family medicine Female Surgery Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Transplantation Proceedings. 52:443-445 |
| ISSN: | 0041-1345 |
| Popis: | Introduction Despite sensitization of medical students toward the donation of organs, a non-negligible percentage of students are not in favor of donation. Objective To analyze the reasons of Spanish medical students who do not have a favorable attitude toward the donation of their own organs after death. Method The population under study is medical students in Spanish universities, using the database of the International Donor Collaborative Project, stratified by geographic area and academic year. The questionnaire completion was anonymous and self-administered. The study group is medical students with an unfavorable attitude toward organ donation. The assessment instrument used is a validated questionnaire of attitude toward the donation of organs for transplant, “PCID-DTO-Ríos.” The reasons against the donation are valued in the questionnaire through a question. Results Of the participants included in the PCID, students who are not in favor of organ donation were selected (n = 1899). Of them, 8.1% (n = 154) are against and 91.1% (n = 1745) are doubtful. The main reasons indicated are the fear of apparent death in 11.4% of respondents, fear of possible mutilation after donation in 11.1%, and religious reasons in 2.6%. Of those, 6.9% indicate other reasons but do not clearly specify the reasons, using words such as “fear” (2.5%) or “doubts about the process” (4.1%); 66.2% (n = 1257) indicated an “assertive refusal” (“I don't want to express my reasons”). Conclusion Twenty percent of Spanish medical students are not in favor of donating their organs and are not in favor of showing their reasons. Sin financiación 1.066 JCR (2020) Q4, 160/162 Inmunology 0.373 SJR (2020) Q3, 260/456 Surgery No data IDR 2020 UEM |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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