The current situation of knowledge and attitudes towards organ, eye tissue, body donation of residents in shenyang / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: China has stopped using the organs from executed prisoners for transplantation since 2015, and organ donation has become the only source of organ transplantation. Therefore, it is very important to fully understand the current status of organ donation. OBJECTIVE: To understand the current status of organ, eye tissue and body donation awareness and attitude of residents in Shenyang city, and to analyze the influencing factors. METHODS: A total of 10 000 residents of Shenyang were sampled by multistage cluster sampling. There were 8 942 valid questionnaires, and the effective rate was 93.43%. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: During the survey, 8 209 people heard of organ donation accounting for 91.8% of all the respondents, and 6 251 people were willing to make a survey about organ/body donation, accounting for 69.9%. With cognition and intention as dependent variables and own situation as independent variable, we made a Logistic regression analysis and found that the cognitive level was related to gender, education level, family per capita monthly income, occupation, political affiliation and religion. The corresponding odds ratio (OR) (known/unknown) values were for males, the OR=0.786; for the education level of primary education or below, OR=0.188; for the monthly income per capita of 2 000-5 000 yuan, OR=1.418; for farmer, OR=1.593; for communist youth league member, OR=1.313; for non-religious, OR=1.810. Respondents' attitudes were related to gender, age, education level, marital status, family per capita income, occupation, political affiliation and religion. The corresponding OR (willing/unwilling) values were for male, OR=1.131; for age ≤ 30 years, OR=1.266; for primary education or below, OR=2.090; for married, OR=0.841; for the monthly income per capita < 2 000 yuan, OR=1.253; for public institution or government department, OR=0.740; for the member of Communist Party of China, OR=0.799; for no religious belief, OR=0.842 (P < 0.05). The above data confirm that Shenyang residents have a high awareness and willingness of organ, eye tissue and body donation in general; however, further publicity is still needed to establish an effective organ donation management system.