• Der Anaesthesist · Nov 2020

    Attitudes and knowledge about post-mortem organ donation among medical students, trainee nurses and students of health sciences in Germany : A cross-sectional study.

    • E Tackmann, P Kurz, and S Dettmer.
    • Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany. elisa.tackmann@charite.de.
    • Anaesthesist. 2020 Nov 1; 69 (11): 810-820.

    ObjectiveIn 2018 Germany had the lowest rate of post-mortem organ donation in the Eurotransplant network. Healthcare trainees and students will be important advisors on organ donation for patients in the future. This study aimed to examine 1) attitudes and knowledge about post-mortem organ donation, 2) how past transplantation scandals have affected those attitudes and 3) how satisfied respondents were with the knowledge provided on the courses.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted between 20 March and 8 July 2019 at a university hospital and nursing schools in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany. Study participants were 209 medical students, 106 health sciences students and 67 trainee nurses.ResultsOf the respondents 29.3 and 50.8% knew the tasks of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation and Eurotransplant, respectively. All brain death questions were correctly answered by 56.3% of the medical students, 25.7% of the health sciences students and 50.9% of the trainee nurses (Fisher's exact test p < 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.242). Transplantation scandals had damaged attitudes towards organ donation for 20.7% of the medical students, 33.3% of the health sciences students and 13.6% of the trainee nurses (χ2-test p = 0.001, Cramer's V = 0.164). Asked whether post-mortem organ donation was sufficiently addressed in their courses, 39.5% of the medical students, 60.4% of the health sciences students and 51.9% of the trainee nurses said this was not or tended not to be the case (Kruskal-Wallis H-test p < 0.001, Spearman's rho r = -0.112).ConclusionGiven the knowledge gaps identified and the respondents' dissatisfaction with the knowledge they received, organ donation should be better integrated into curricula and training programs.

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