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KMID : 1004620060120010125
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Clinical Nursing Research
2006 Volume.12 No. 1 p.125 ~ p.135
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A Study on Knowledge and Attitude of Nurses Regarding Brain Death Organ Donation
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Sung Mi-Hae
Son Eun-Young
Lee Sang-Eun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study investigated nurses’ knowledge and attitude about brain death donation and identified influencing factors on knowledge and attitude with a modified questionnaire.
Method: 205 nurses from 3 hospitals above 400 beds in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do participated in the survey, and it was about their knowledge and attitude about brain death organ donation. The data were analyzed by using SPSS WIN 10.0 program with frequency, percentages, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Result: The correct answer rate of knowledge about brain death organ donation was 60.9%. The attitude score toward brain death organ donation was 3.33±0.33. Of these, the score for the positive items was 3.61±0.32, and the score of the negative items was 3.05±0.47. There were statistically significant differences in the scores on knowledge about brain death organ donation according to marital status(t=1.992, p=.048), deficit of parent(F=5.036, p=.007), health status(F=3.620, p=.029), job position(F=3.899, p=.022), working unit(F=6.598, p=.000), disease of family(F=2.987, p=.003), education on donation(t=-4.537, p=.000), experience handling the donation(t=-2.224, p=.027), working in the hospital performing of transplantation(t=-4.938, p=.000), working in a hospital performing of organ procurement(t=2.295, p=.023). There were statistically significant differences in the scores on the attitude on brain dead organ donation according to health status(F=4.204, p=.007), job position(F=6.918, p=.001). Significantly, the attitude was negatively correlated with the knowledge about brain dead organ donation(r=-.423, p=.000).
Conclusions: It is necessary to provide positive education on knowledge of brain dead organ donation to nurses to encourage the attitude toward brain dead organ donation. And to promote brain death organ donation, relevant policies and effective campaigns need to be developed and put into effect.
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KEYWORD
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Brain death organ donation, Knowledge, Attitude
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