Attitudes to organ donation among Swedish ICU nurses

Abstract

All nurses working in ICUs are obliged to participate in organ donation and are therefore included in these results.

Attitudes toward postmortem cornea donation in Germany: a multicenter survey

“…This result reflects our personal experiences, and might correlate to observations in medical environments previously published by Demir et al and Floden et al [22,25]. It nevertheless warrants further investigation to uncover the additional set of attitudes that lead to low intentions to donate corneas in medical environments.…”

The Knowledge, Perception and Attitudes Towards Organ Donation Among General Population - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

“…Actually, inadequate knowledge and vague conception of brainstem death always had a negative effect on OD (15). A survey on Sweden ICU nurses highlighted that they didn't trust brain death diagnosis (18).The current study also revealed that the overall perceptions about OD did not differ significantly by educational level, gender, or the family income. In contrast, a study in Korea has shown a high level of knowledge among health-care professionals which is influenced significantly by educational level of the respondents (19).…”

Knowledge and Attitudes about Organ Donation among Medical Students in Egypt: A Questionnaire

“…A substantial proportion (up to 40%) of refusal of OD in European students was due to lack of confidence of doctors' reliability to diagnose brainstem death [31,[35][36][37]. A survey on Sweden ICU nurses highlighted that they didn't trust brain death diagnosis [42]. Although the overall adequate knowledge was in 36% of medical students, it decreased to 11.7% when estimating the percentage of students with adequate knowledge on brainstem death.…”