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A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland
(1) The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of sociodemographic (age, sex, religion, place of residence) and university-related factors (university, year of studies) on the attitudes of students towards organ donation and transplantation. (2) Methods: The study was conducted on 1530 st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9961742/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043711 |
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author | Mikla, Marzena Cybulska, Anna Maria Schneider-Matyka, Daria Ríos, Antonio Panczyk, Mariusz Kotwas, Artur Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta |
author_facet | Mikla, Marzena Cybulska, Anna Maria Schneider-Matyka, Daria Ríos, Antonio Panczyk, Mariusz Kotwas, Artur Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta |
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description | (1) The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of sociodemographic (age, sex, religion, place of residence) and university-related factors (university, year of studies) on the attitudes of students towards organ donation and transplantation. (2) Methods: The study was conducted on 1530 students from the Faculty of Medicine from three medical universities in Poland. The measurement tool was a validated questionnaire of attitude towards organ donation and transplantation (PCID-DTO RIOS: A questionnaire designed by the International Collaborative Organ Donation project about organ transplantation and donation). (3) Results: The completion rate was 88.10% (n = 1348). The vast majority declared a willingness to donate their organs in the future (86.60%), and 31.71% had an organ donation card. It was found that place of residence (p = 0.018) and religion (p = 0.003) had a significant effect on the attitude towards transplantation. Age, sex, and year of the study were not found to have a statistically significant effect on the decision. (4) Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that medical students show a favourable attitude towards transplantation in the first year of their study, and their knowledge and positive tendencies increase in the final years of medical education. |
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spelling | pubmed-99617422023-02-26 A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland Mikla, Marzena Cybulska, Anna Maria Schneider-Matyka, Daria Ríos, Antonio Panczyk, Mariusz Kotwas, Artur Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of sociodemographic (age, sex, religion, place of residence) and university-related factors (university, year of studies) on the attitudes of students towards organ donation and transplantation. (2) Methods: The study was conducted on 1530 students from the Faculty of Medicine from three medical universities in Poland. The measurement tool was a validated questionnaire of attitude towards organ donation and transplantation (PCID-DTO RIOS: A questionnaire designed by the International Collaborative Organ Donation project about organ transplantation and donation). (3) Results: The completion rate was 88.10% (n = 1348). The vast majority declared a willingness to donate their organs in the future (86.60%), and 31.71% had an organ donation card. It was found that place of residence (p = 0.018) and religion (p = 0.003) had a significant effect on the attitude towards transplantation. Age, sex, and year of the study were not found to have a statistically significant effect on the decision. (4) Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that medical students show a favourable attitude towards transplantation in the first year of their study, and their knowledge and positive tendencies increase in the final years of medical education. MDPI 2023-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9961742/ /pubmed/36834407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043711 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mikla, Marzena Cybulska, Anna Maria Schneider-Matyka, Daria Ríos, Antonio Panczyk, Mariusz Kotwas, Artur Karakiewicz, Beata Grochans, Elżbieta A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title | A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title_full | A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title_fullStr | A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title_short | A Multicentre Study of the Attitude of Medical Students towards Organ Donation and Transplantation in Poland |
title_sort | multicentre study of the attitude of medical students towards organ donation and transplantation in poland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9961742/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834407 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043711 |
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