Table 3 Attitude towards organ donation
From: Attitudes towards organ donation in Syria: a cross-sectional study
N (%) | |
|---|---|
What is your attitude toward organ donation? | |
Agree | 176 (58) |
Disagree | 76 (25) |
Do not know | 50 (17) |
Would you like to donate an organ or more one day? | |
Yes | 183 (62) |
No | 112 (38) |
When would you prefer to donate your organs? | |
Only during life | 50 (21) |
Only after death | 121 (51) |
Any time | 68 (28) |
Would you agree to donate organs of a family member after their death? | |
Yes | 149 (50) |
No | 148 (50) |
Would you agree to donate organs of a family member in cases of brain death? | |
Yes | 102 (35) |
No | 191 (65) |
Would you encourage organ donation? | |
Yes | 200 (67) |
No | 99 (33) |
Who would you want to donate your organs to? | |
Only for relatives | 94 (35) |
Only for non-relatives | 1 (0.3) |
Relatives and non-relatives | 174 (65) |
In case you agreed to donate your organs, what would your motivations be? | |
Financial | 5 (2) |
Religious | 130 (43) |
It does not harm, so why not? | 125 (41) |
The desire to help | 234 (77) |
In case you disagreed to donate your organs, what would the reasons be? | |
Absence of financial benefit | 5 (2) |
Religious beliefs | 71 (24) |
Social and familial barriers | 88 (29) |
Refusing to act with corpses | 125 (41) |
Fear of being murdered in order to obtain organs | 117 (39) |
Fear of not receiving a good medical care | 104 (34) |
Fear of talking about death | 29 (10) |
Lack of knowledge about organ donation | 75 (25) |
Organs recipients are not chosen fairly | 121 (40) |
Are you aware of the laws and legislations related to organ donation, brain death and organ transplantation in Syria? | |
Yes | 37 (12) |
No | 261 (88) |
If religion and law were encouraging organ donation, would you do it? | |
Yes | 226 (76) |
No | 70 (24) |
Do you have an experience with organ donation? | |
Yes | 2 (1) |
No | 297 (99) |
If we conducted a lecture about organ donation, would you attend it? | |
Yes | 87 (29) |
No | 215 (71) |