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Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey
Background: A single organ and tissue donor can serve and save eight-fold lives, but availability of organ donors is scarce, posing a grim situation for end-stage organ failure worldwide. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs toward organ donation can help policymakers develop strategies to a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206591 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2020.5 |
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author | Singh, Rajvir Varughese, Betsy El-Menyar, Ayman Agarwal, Tulika Mehta Shahbal, Saad Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abdulla Al Maslamani, Yousuf Salam, Amar Al Thani, Hassan |
author_facet | Singh, Rajvir Varughese, Betsy El-Menyar, Ayman Agarwal, Tulika Mehta Shahbal, Saad Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abdulla Al Maslamani, Yousuf Salam, Amar Al Thani, Hassan |
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description | Background: A single organ and tissue donor can serve and save eight-fold lives, but availability of organ donors is scarce, posing a grim situation for end-stage organ failure worldwide. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs toward organ donation can help policymakers develop strategies to address the challenges facing organ donation and transplantation in Qatar. Aim: To assess sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and intentions regarding organ donation in the household population of Qatar. Methods: A prospective observational household survey was conducted between October and November 2016 in Qatar using a validated questionnaire. One thousand forty-four individuals aged 18 and older residing in eight municipalities in the country were enrolled in the survey. Results: Average age was 38 ± 11 years. There were 27.4% Qatari citizens and 72.6% nonQatari residents in the survey. 48.9% of the total (1044) were males. Knowledge [46% (95% C.I.: 45% − 47%)], attitude [70% (95% C.I.: 66%–74%)], behavioral beliefs [42% (95% C.I.: 39%–50%)], normative beliefs [29% (95% C.I.: 28%–30%)], control beliefs [–27% (95% C.I.: − 24% to − 30%)] and intentions towards organ donation [29% (95% C.I.: 27%–31%)] were observed in the study. Factor analyses were able to explain 70%, 72%, 70%, and 74% variations in knowledge, attitude, beliefs, and intentions domains respectively showing adequacy of construct of the domains for organ donation. Conclusion: Most of the survey participants showed good attitude but less intention towards organ donation. |
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spelling | pubmed-70744472020-03-23 Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey Singh, Rajvir Varughese, Betsy El-Menyar, Ayman Agarwal, Tulika Mehta Shahbal, Saad Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abdulla Al Maslamani, Yousuf Salam, Amar Al Thani, Hassan Qatar Med J Research Article Background: A single organ and tissue donor can serve and save eight-fold lives, but availability of organ donors is scarce, posing a grim situation for end-stage organ failure worldwide. Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs toward organ donation can help policymakers develop strategies to address the challenges facing organ donation and transplantation in Qatar. Aim: To assess sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and intentions regarding organ donation in the household population of Qatar. Methods: A prospective observational household survey was conducted between October and November 2016 in Qatar using a validated questionnaire. One thousand forty-four individuals aged 18 and older residing in eight municipalities in the country were enrolled in the survey. Results: Average age was 38 ± 11 years. There were 27.4% Qatari citizens and 72.6% nonQatari residents in the survey. 48.9% of the total (1044) were males. Knowledge [46% (95% C.I.: 45% − 47%)], attitude [70% (95% C.I.: 66%–74%)], behavioral beliefs [42% (95% C.I.: 39%–50%)], normative beliefs [29% (95% C.I.: 28%–30%)], control beliefs [–27% (95% C.I.: − 24% to − 30%)] and intentions towards organ donation [29% (95% C.I.: 27%–31%)] were observed in the study. Factor analyses were able to explain 70%, 72%, 70%, and 74% variations in knowledge, attitude, beliefs, and intentions domains respectively showing adequacy of construct of the domains for organ donation. Conclusion: Most of the survey participants showed good attitude but less intention towards organ donation. HBKU Press 2020-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7074447/ /pubmed/32206591 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2020.5 Text en © 2020 Singh, Varughese, El-Menyar, Agarwal, Shahbal, Mekkodathil, Al Maslamani, Salam, Al Thani, licensee HBKU Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Singh, Rajvir Varughese, Betsy El-Menyar, Ayman Agarwal, Tulika Mehta Shahbal, Saad Mekkodathil, Ahammed Abdulla Al Maslamani, Yousuf Salam, Amar Al Thani, Hassan Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title | Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title_full | Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title_short | Prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in Qatar: A household survey |
title_sort | prevalence of socio-demographic and behavioral factors about organ donation in qatar: a household survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206591 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2020.5 |
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