Knowledge, Attitude, and Barriers Toward Deceased Organ Donation Among Health Care Professionals and Medical Students in Southern Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

CONCLUSIONS: Attitudes of medical students and health care personnel toward organ donation were positive, although they were generally reluctantto donate their organs. This study repeats the need for education interventions that should stress the importance of donation, brain death irreversibility, national legal regulations for organ donation, the compatibility of organ donation with religious values, and the explanation of inaccurate beliefs.PMID:37885294 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2023.0166

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - October 27, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Hany M El Hennawy Omar Safar Ali Thamer Aisha Asiri Haifa S Abdullah Wajd A Alhadi Ibrahim S Al Faifi Mohammad F Zaitoun Moady Asiri Abdullah S Al Faifi Source Type: research