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Sensitization Toward Organ Donation Among Medical Students in Spanish Regions With More Than 50 Donors Per Million Population

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 51; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.10.004

1873-2623

Antonio Ríos, A. López‐Navas, Pedro Gutiérrez, Francisco Javier Gómez, J. Iriarte, Rafael Herruzo, Gerardo Blanco‐Fernández, Javier Llorca, Ángel Asúnsolo, P. Sánchez, Ana Fernández‐Santander, María Teresa de Jesús, L. Martínez‐Alarcón, Alberto Lana, Lorena Fuentes‐Broto, Juan R. Hernández, J. Virseda, José Yélamos, J.A. Bondía, A.M. Hernández, Marco Antonio Ayala‐García, J. Flores-Medina, J. Carrillo, Á. Sánchez, Pablo Ramírez, Pascual Parrilla,

Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research

The awareness of organ donation among health professionals is important at the time of transplant promotion. In this sense, the training and awareness of the professionals in training is fundamental.To analyze the differences in the attitude toward organ donation and the factors that condition it among medical students of regions with donation rates >50 donors per million population (pmp) with respect to those with rates 50 donors pmp. Group 2 (n = 2018): university students in regions with 50 donors pmp and with <40 donors pmp. In group 1, 79% (n = 897) of students are in favor compared with 81% (n = 1625) of group 2 (P=.29). The psychosocial profile toward donation is similar in both groups relating to the following variables (P < .05): sex, having discussed transplantation with family and as a couple, considering the possibility of needing a transplant, involvement in prosocial activities, attitude toward the manipulation of corpses, knowledge of the brain death concept, and religion.The awareness of organ donation in Spanish medical students is quite homogeneous and is not related to the local donation rates of each region.