A study on the relationship among knowledge, attitude and willingness toward organ donation behaviors of undergraduate: the comparison between health care and non-health care university students

• Main Authors: Yi-yun Tu, 杜懿韻
• Other Authors: Ming-chang Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67458812941199186526

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 99 === 　　The purpose of this study is to understand and compare the knowledge, attitude and willingness towards organ donation behaviors of health care and non-health care university students, and furthermore, to find the correlations among knowledge, attitudes and willingness. 　 　　The population in this study included the undergraduates of 149 universities in Taiwan, excluded night schools, summer schools and junior colleges. Subjects were divided into health care with a total number of 751,508 people and non-health care with a total number of 19,640 people. In this study, we revised scale of organ donation by See (1998). Probability proportional sampling was used. A total of 600 students (300 health care and 300 non-health care) answered a questionnaire. A total of twelve universities to be investigated, six for health care and six for non-health care. In conclusion, survey response rate of 542, effective questionnaire was 90.3%. Then, gained information will be analyzed (including descriptive statistics, t test, one-way ANOVA, χ2-Test, Pearson correlation) by SPSS 12.0 statistical software, and the following results were obtained: 1. Both health care and non-health care undergraduates almost have heard of organ transplantation or donation. 2. The health care and non-health care undergraduates’ knowledge level of organ donation behaviors was above medium level. 3. The health care and non-health care undergraduates’ attitude toward organ donation was positive. 4. The health care undergraduates have signed organ donation consent card slightly higher than the non- health care undergraduates. 5. Most health care and non-health care undergraduates have not discussed views or decisions of organ donation with their family’s members. 6. Most health care and non-health care undergraduates are in favor of the family to sign their own organ donation consent card. 7. Most health care and non-health care undergraduates are willing to sign family member''s agreement of organ donation. 8. The health care and non-health care undergraduates are willing to donate most of their organs with the bone and the skin of organ the least. 9. Most health care and non-health care undergraduates are willing to donate their own organs to their family, friends or people who they do not know. 10. When the health care and non-health care undergraduates sign the organ donation consent card, to consider their own opinion for most important, the next are family member''s opinion. 11. The health insurance card may indicate willingness for organ donation of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the knowledge of organ donation behaviors of non-health care undergraduates. 12. The backgrounds, including gender, year and religion showed significant differences, regarding the attitude of organ donation of health care undergraduates. 13. The habit of blood donation of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the attitude of organ donation of non-health care undergraduates. 14. The habit of blood donation of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the willingness of organ donation of health care undergraduates; the year of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the willingness of organ donation of non-health care undergraduates. 15. The year of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the willingness of discuss opinion of organ donation with family of health care undergraduates; the backgrounds, including year, gender and the habit of blood donation showed significant differences, regarding the willingness of discuss opinion of organ donation with family of non-health care undergraduates. 16. The habit of blood donation of the backgrounds showed significant difference, regarding the attitude of family’s member sign their own organ donation consent card of non-health care undergraduates. 17. The health care undergraduates were more likely to have knowledge about organ donation behaviors compared with the non- health care undergraduates. 18. The health care undergraduates would like to discuss opinion or decision of organ donation with family’s member than the non-health care undergraduates. 19. The health care undergraduates approved that family’s members sign their own organ donation consent card than the non- health care undergraduates. 20. A significant positive correlation was found between attitude and willingness of organ donation in health care and non-health care undergraduates.