Public knowledge and attitudes regarding organ and tissue donation: an analysis of the northwest Ohio community

Sander, Shannon L.; Miller, Barbara Kopp

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2004.08.003

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“…Opinion 2.151 in the American Medical Association's AMA Code of Medical Ethics states, BPhysicians should participate in efforts to increase organ donation including promotion of voluntary donation.^1 5 The American College of Physicians proclaims, BIdeally, physicians will discuss the option of organ donation with patients during advance care planning as part of a routine office visit, before the need arises.^1 6 Another benefit of patient-primary care provider discussions regarding organ donation is it allows the patient's preferences to be documented in the medical record and easily accessible should the patient become eligible for donation. Such documentation of the patient's wishes would be helpful to other medical providers and to family members and caregivers.…”

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“…1 Other studies have demonstrated that the general public would like to discuss donation with their primary care physicians. [4][5][6] Preceding work has also demonstrated that primary care physicians believe it is within their scope of practice to discuss donation with their patients, but they do so infrequently because of lack of time, training, and comfort initiating the topic. 7 As a result, few efforts have actively targeted physicians and their patients for intervention.…”

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Effects of a Video on Organ Donation Consent Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Effects of a Video on Organ Donation Consent Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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“…The first component was adapted from the work of Sander [30] and Weaver [42]. This scale consisted of 16 items that had true/false response options.…”

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“…Drawing from existing measures in the research literature, we created a 24-item scale that captured attitudes and beliefs about donation and transplantation [6,30,43,44]. This scale included items that measured support for donation, willingness to donate to people of other racial/ethnic groups, religious objections to donation, concerns that donation might hasten death, trust in the donation and transplantation system, and perceptions of equality in the transplant system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research clearly suggests that knowledge and awareness of the topic of donation and transplantation is associated with donation intentions [1,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Among African Americans in particular, studies using a composite measure of knowledge demonstrate that overall knowledge about organ donation is an important predictor of willingness to donate [6,26,[38][39][40][41].…”

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Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

Arriola

Robinson

Perryman

et al. 2008

Patient Education and Counseling

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Objectives-To explore the association between different types of knowledge related to donation and transplantation and the expression of donation intentions via one's driver's license, a donor card, or sharing one's wishes with family.Methods-Cross-sectional data were gathered via self-administered questionnaire from 425 Black adults, age 18 years and older who were recruited from nine churches in a large metropolitan area in the southeast United States.Results-Results indicate that knowledge of the allocation system and experiential knowledge of a transplant recipient are associated with donation intentions after controlling for age, gender, and highest level of education. However, the following types of knowledge were unrelated to donation intentions: donation-related statistics (including an understanding of African Americans' overrepresentation among those in need), the donation process, the process for determining medical suitability, and religious institutions' support for donation.Conclusions-Findings suggest that the relationship between donation-related knowledge and donation intentions is complex and may depend on the specific type of knowledge being measured.Practice Implications-Knowledge of the allocation system and experiential knowledge of a recipient may be critical aspects of the donation decision-making process. Research findings suggest the need for an educational approach that seeks to improve the specific types of knowledge that are most strongly associated with donation intentions.

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Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students

Jenkin

Garrett

Keay

2022

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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Health education, research, and training rely on the altruistic act of body donation for the supply of cadavers. Organ transplantation and research rely on donated organs. Supply of both is limited, with further restrictions in Australia due to requirements for a next‐of‐kin agreement to donation, irrespective of the deceased's pre‐death consent. Research suggests health workers are less likely to support the donation of their own bodies and/or organs, despite recognizing the public good of donation, and that exposure to gross anatomy teaching may negatively affect support for donation. Attitudes to body and organ donation were examined in Australian students studying anatomy. Support for self‐body donation (26.5%) was much lower than support for self‐organ donation (82.5%). Ten percent of participants would not support the election of a family member or member of the public to donate their body, and just over 4% would not support the election of a family member to donate their organs, with one‐to‐two percent not supporting this election by a member of the public. Exposure to gross anatomy teaching was associated with an increased likelihood of consideration of issues about body and organ donation, whether for self, family, or the public, and registration as an organ donor. Exposure decreased participants' willingness to donate their own body, with those who practiced a religion least likely to support body donation. Gross anatomy courses provide an opportunity to inform future healthcare workers about altruistic donation, albeit with a recognition that religious or cultural beliefs may affect willingness to donate.

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Public knowledge and attitudes regarding organ and tissue donation: an analysis of the northwest Ohio community

Cited by 89 publications

References 12 publications

Effects of a Video on Organ Donation Consent Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of a Video on Organ Donation Consent Among Primary Care Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Understanding the relationship between knowledge and African Americans’ donation decision-making

Altruism in death: Attitudes to body and organ donation in Australian students

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