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JOURNAL ARTICLE
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
[Spanish public opinion concerning organ donation and transplantation].
Medicina Clínica 1995 October 8
BACKGROUND: Information, beliefs, attitudes and the motivations of the Spanish population regarding organ donation and transplantation were studied to facilitate possible programs directed at the promotion of organ donation.
METHODS: The Psychosocial Aspects of Donation Questionnaire (PADQ) was applied by personal interview to a representative sample of the Spanish population (n = 1,288).
RESULTS: Sixty-five percent of the population was found to be in favor of donating their own organs while only 6.1% had an organ donation card. The main reasons inducing those questioned to be donors were solidarity (47%) and reciprocity (29%). The fundamental reasons hindering donation were not knowing how to be a donor (34%) and the fear of the possibility of an only apparent death (24%). Ninety-three percent would donate the organs of a dead relative if they knew that this person was in favor of donating. Only 52% would donate if they did not know the will of the departed relative. The younger subjects with a higher level of education, higher socioeconomic status, and better informed evaluated donation and transplantation favorably and those with direct experience showed a more favorable inclination to the donation of their own organs.
CONCLUSIONS: Educational programs directed at the population should provide information on the efficacy and the profitability of transplantation presenting real cases and emphasizing the quality of life obtained by the receptors. Incentives to organ donation should be directed at reasons of solidarity and reciprocity. Family debate of the matter should be promoted as should the establishment of clear and accessible procedures for the obtaining of a donor card and thereafter the communication of the holders as to their decision to their respective relatives.
METHODS: The Psychosocial Aspects of Donation Questionnaire (PADQ) was applied by personal interview to a representative sample of the Spanish population (n = 1,288).
RESULTS: Sixty-five percent of the population was found to be in favor of donating their own organs while only 6.1% had an organ donation card. The main reasons inducing those questioned to be donors were solidarity (47%) and reciprocity (29%). The fundamental reasons hindering donation were not knowing how to be a donor (34%) and the fear of the possibility of an only apparent death (24%). Ninety-three percent would donate the organs of a dead relative if they knew that this person was in favor of donating. Only 52% would donate if they did not know the will of the departed relative. The younger subjects with a higher level of education, higher socioeconomic status, and better informed evaluated donation and transplantation favorably and those with direct experience showed a more favorable inclination to the donation of their own organs.
CONCLUSIONS: Educational programs directed at the population should provide information on the efficacy and the profitability of transplantation presenting real cases and emphasizing the quality of life obtained by the receptors. Incentives to organ donation should be directed at reasons of solidarity and reciprocity. Family debate of the matter should be promoted as should the establishment of clear and accessible procedures for the obtaining of a donor card and thereafter the communication of the holders as to their decision to their respective relatives.
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