Organ donationKnowledge and Attitudes About Deceased Donor Organ Donation in Filipinos: A Qualitative Assessment
Section snippets
Recruitment and Participants
The Bayanihan Project’s community-based activities are guided by a Community Advisory Board of over 20 leaders from the Filipino community including: state congressional representatives, leaders in Filipino community organizations, city council members, business leaders, health professionals, and religious leaders. With advice from this group and after reviewing previously published results, key subgroups from the community were selected for inclusion in focus groups. These individuals were
Sample
A total of 57 Filipinos participated in the six focus groups. The mean age of adult participants was 52.3 ± 15 years; the mean age of the adolescents was 15.7 ± .78 years. Most participants were Catholic (83%), and except for the physician group, which was 42% female, there were more women (72%) than men. Over 70% of the adult participants had children. One transplant surgeon participated in the physician focus group; however, the remaining physicians were primary care physicians, retired, or
Discussion
Filipinos are overrepresented on transplant waiting lists, but few become organ donors following their death. This study explored the issues that could be linked to the knowledge, attitudes, and cultural beliefs that Filipinos have toward organ donation. Qualitative methods were used with six targeted Filipino groups, who attended focus groups held at locations in the community.
The participants in these focus groups were generally knowledgeable about why organ donation is important to an
References (13)
- et al.
Influence of race of cadaveric kidney donor and recipient on graft survivala multifactorial analysis
Am J Kidney Dis
(1987) - et al.
Attitudes and beliefs within the Sikh community regarding organ donationa pilot study
Soc Sci Med
(1996) - et al.
Organ donation in the United States
Am J Transplant
(2003) - et al.
Cultural attitudes of Asian-Americans toward death adversely impact organ donation
Transplant Proc
(1998) Organ Procurement and Transplantation NetworkData reports for data on organ donation, transplantation, and waiting list candidates
(2005)United Network for Organ Sharing: Data: transplants—2004, donors—2004
(2005)
Cited by (25)
Complexity of Organ Donation Registration: Determinants of Registration Behavior Among Lower-educated Adolescents
2018, Transplantation ProceedingsCitation Excerpt :One question was added in the light of a possible future intervention: “I would like to learn more about organ donation and registration.” The last theme, religion, was covered by 1 question [11,42,43]: “What is your religion's stance on organ donation?” ( Positive/Neutral/Negative/Don't know).
Anger, frustration, boredom and the Department of Motor Vehicles: Can negative emotions impede organ donor registration?
2016, Social Science and MedicineCitation Excerpt :Finally, we investigated whether people randomly assigned to recall a prior negative DMV experience report lower intentions to register as a donor than those assigned to write about their current day. To be sure, the goal of the current studies was not to examine the emotions associated with organ donation itself (e.g., fear and anxiety associated with death and signing an organ donor card; Albright et al., 2005), but rather to determine how the DMV might influence people's emotions and how these emotions affect their intentions to register as organ donors. The goal of the first study was to assess whether visits to the DMV are likely to arouse negative emotions.
Living donor kidney transplantation in a global environment
2007, Kidney InternationalBeliefs of Living Donors About Recipients' End-Stage Liver Failure and Surgery for Organ Donation
2017, Transplantation ProceedingsCitation Excerpt :Another continuum was related to whether or not being a donor involves committing a sin. This finding is consistent with the findings of both quantitative and qualitative studies among the general population, medical students, and health workers that indicate cultural issues and religion beliefs and/or traditions as barriers to organ donation [38–41] and reflects the role of religion in shaping the beliefs toward organ donation. In fact, it has been found that although 88.2% of imams and educators of Koran reported that organ donation was appropriate for Muslims, only 1.4% of them reported that they agreed to donate organs [42].
This research was funded by NIH grant 1R01 DK62659.