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Hamidzadeh arbabi Y, Badakhshan H, dana F, Ouoni L. Knowledge and Attitude of Students about Organ Donation and its Conditions in Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, 2022. JHC 2023; 25 (1) :41-50
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. Assistant Professor of Health education and health promotion, occupational health department, school of health, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
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Background & aim: organ donation is one of the main advances in area of medical science in recent years, and encouraging the people to donate organs can help to institutionalize it in the society. This requires the awareness and positive attitude of the members of the society about it. The purpose of the study was to determine and compare the awareness and attitude of students of different faculties of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences towards organ donation and its conditions in 2022.
Methods: This research was a cross-sectional and descriptive study. The research population was all students of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences during the year of 2022. Three hundred and eighty-eight students were included. The data was collected randomly in several phases from the faculties. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The data were randomly assigned and stratified in several stages of the faculties. The data collected in SPSS-19 and were analyzed with the help of descriptive and analytical statistics tests (frequency and percentage, mean and standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, etc.).
Results: The mean and standard deviation of total students’ knowledge and attitude scores were 30.06±6.88 and 66.56±7.55, respectively. In the level of knowledge, 51.5% of students had average knowledge and 48.5% of students had good knowledge about the conditions of organ donation. Also, the attitude of 47.7% of students towards the conditions of organ donation was average and the attitude of 52.3% of students about organ donation was good. Age (p=0.03), grade point average (p<0.001) and history of organ donation in family and friends (p=0.04) had a statistically significant correlation with the average scores of students' knowledge and attitude.
Conclusion: Considering the importance of knowledge and attitude in the preparation of students for organ donation, inclusion of organ donation and its conditions in the beginning of the lessons of all medical sciences, increasing the education of organ donation and its conditions in public media especially radio and television should be provided. It is necessary to make preparations for the completion of the organ donation form by students and hold educational workshops about organ donation and its conditions for professors, staff, and members of scientific associations and student research committee’s members of medical science
Methods: This research was a cross-sectional and descriptive study. The research population was all students of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences during the year of 2022. Three hundred and eighty-eight students were included. The data was collected randomly in several phases from the faculties. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The data were randomly assigned and stratified in several stages of the faculties. The data collected in SPSS-19 and were analyzed with the help of descriptive and analytical statistics tests (frequency and percentage, mean and standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, etc.).
Results: The mean and standard deviation of total students’ knowledge and attitude scores were 30.06±6.88 and 66.56±7.55, respectively. In the level of knowledge, 51.5% of students had average knowledge and 48.5% of students had good knowledge about the conditions of organ donation. Also, the attitude of 47.7% of students towards the conditions of organ donation was average and the attitude of 52.3% of students about organ donation was good. Age (p=0.03), grade point average (p<0.001) and history of organ donation in family and friends (p=0.04) had a statistically significant correlation with the average scores of students' knowledge and attitude.
Conclusion: Considering the importance of knowledge and attitude in the preparation of students for organ donation, inclusion of organ donation and its conditions in the beginning of the lessons of all medical sciences, increasing the education of organ donation and its conditions in public media especially radio and television should be provided. It is necessary to make preparations for the completion of the organ donation form by students and hold educational workshops about organ donation and its conditions for professors, staff, and members of scientific associations and student research committee’s members of medical science
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Received: 2022/11/5 | Accepted: 2023/06/27 | Published: 2023/05/31
Received: 2022/11/5 | Accepted: 2023/06/27 | Published: 2023/05/31
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