Police Officers' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Brain Death and Organ Donation in Korea

Kim, H.S.; Yoo, Young Sik; Cho, O.-H.; Lee, C.E.; Choi, Yeon-Jun; Kim, H.J.; Park, J.Y.; Park, H.S.; Kwon, Youngjoo

doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.02.049

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“…Among the Korean health professionals interviewed, only the transplant surgeon was able to explain the distinction between a persistent vegetative state (PVS) and brain death . Korean nurses and emergency personnel such as police officers as well as nursing and grade school students performed relatively poorly on organ donation knowledge evaluations .…”

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“…Improved knowledge is positively correlated with positive attitudes toward organ donation. And both increased knowledge and positive attitude should in turn increase willingness and commitment to donate . Notably, this was not true among Koreans.…”

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“…Religion played a more important role in Koreans . Most Koreans surveyed, except the police officer and student cohort, were affiliated with a religion, only a portion of them reported having no religion (39.1% of public, 34% of nursing student, 53.9% of middle and high school student, 64.4% of police officers) . Among surveyed patients’ relatives, 41.3% thought that religion was an important factor when making decisions about organ donation .…”

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Cultural barriers to organ donation among Chinese and Korean individuals in the United States: a systematic review

Hillyer

Husain

2019

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Asian Americans have the lowest organ donation registration rates in the United States, and the reason for this is incompletely understood. Aiming to understand the reasons for low organ donation registration rate among Asian Americans, more specifically Chinese and Korean Americans, we conducted a systematic search of databases, websites, and gray literature. Altogether, 34 papers were retained after the assessment of relevance and quality. Commonly reported barriers to organ donation registration among Chinese and Koreans in the literature included lack of knowledge about organ donation, distrust of health-care and allocation system, cultural avoidance of discussion of death-related topics, and desire for intact body mainly stemming from the Confucian concept of filial piety. Strong family values coupled with a cultural reluctance to discuss death-related topics among family members appear to underscore the reluctance to organ donation among Chinese and Koreans. Notably, improved knowledge negatively impacted organ donation intent and religion seemed to play a more important role when making decision about organ donation among Koreans, and the distrust of the allocation system is more prominent among Chinese. This information should be used to inform the development of culturally competent organ donation educational materials.

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Cultural barriers to organ donation among Chinese and Korean individuals in the United States: a systematic review

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2019

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Knowledge and practice of organ donation among police personnel in Tamil Nadu: A cross-sectional study

Thyagarajan

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Organ Donation and the Medicolegal Aspects

Thyagarajan,

Kanvinde,

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Indian Journal of Transplantation

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Context: In India, the majority of brain-dead organ donors are victims of road traffic accidents, thereby making them entities in medicolegal cases (MLC). This places an additional burden and complicates the organ donation process, as an inquest must be conducted by the police station closest to the accident spot before the possibility of organ donation is considered. Following organ retrieval and donation, a postmortem is required before the body is handed back to the police. These procedures cause delays in the organ donation process and subsequently in families receiving the body of their loved ones. The problem is compounded by the fact that there are variations in the inquest and postmortem procedures in different states. Aim: The study aims to comprehensively enumerate the medicolegal protocols followed by the states having an active deceased organ donation program. Design and Methods: A survey, using a structured questionnaire, was conducted among the senior Transplant Coordinators (key stakeholders in the organ donation process) of eight states. Their experiences handling MLC and the state protocols adhered to were captured. Results: It was found that there were differences in protocols followed by the states with respect to medicolegal organ donation cases. Significant variations were observed in the police inquest and postmortem procedures. A need for training of the police personnel in the medicolegal aspects of the organ donation process is evident from the survey responses. Conclusions: The undue delays lead to difficulties in completing the donation and also cause distress among the family members who have said yes to organ donation despite their grief. The study recommends the need for uniformity in protocols to ease pain points in this program. This is of paramount importance in instances of interstate-organ donation cases.

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Police Officers' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Brain Death and Organ Donation in Korea

Cited by 3 publications

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Cultural barriers to organ donation among Chinese and Korean individuals in the United States: a systematic review

Cultural barriers to organ donation among Chinese and Korean individuals in the United States: a systematic review

Knowledge and practice of organ donation among police personnel in Tamil Nadu: A cross-sectional study

Organ Donation and the Medicolegal Aspects

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