Level of knowledge of organ donation and sociodemographic factors in medical students: a cross-sectional study
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Tissue and Organ Procurement, Knowledge, Students, Medical, Population CharacteristicsAbstract
Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of organ donation (LKD) in tenth-semester Human Medicine students and its relationship with some sociodemographic variables.
Materials and methods: A cross-sectional survey study conducted with 121 students from a Peruvian university. A questionnaire consisting of five sociodemographic characteristics and 10 questions about LKD was used. Besides the descriptive analysis, a chi-square test was used to compare LKD with the sociodemographic characteristics, considering a significant relationship
when the p value was less than 0.05.
Results: The average age of the students was 23 ± 2.3 years, 51.2 % were males, 78.5 % practiced a religion, 83.5 %
acquired their knowledge in an academic environment and 24.8 % had a family member or close friend who needed
an organ transplant. Forty-seven percent (47 %), 42 % and 11 % of the students had a high, medium and low LKD,
respectively. According to the bivariate analysis, there was no relationship between LKD and the age group of the
students (p = 0.696), their sex (p = 0.794), the origin of their knowledge (p = 0.734) or having an acquaintance
who needed an organ donation (p = 0.269); however, it was related (p = 0.008; 95% CI 0.008 – 0.011) to practicing
a religion.
Conclusions: Most tenth-semester Human Medicine students had a high LKD, which was related to practicing a religion.
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