Clinical trial NCT02279810: Attitudes About Organ Transplantation
Official title: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice About Organ Transplantation Among Medical Students and Medical Staff
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Transplantation, Organ
Keywords: organ shortage
attitudes to organ transplantation
Lead sponsor: International Institute of Rescue Research and Education
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2014-10-31
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Medical staff: medical doctors, nurses, paramedics Medical students: PhD students, medicine students, nursing and paramedics studies

Brief summary: The study evaluates the knowledge, attitude and practice about organ transplantation among medical students and medical staff.

Detailed description: Globally, almost every second a transplanted kidney comes from a living donor (LDTx); in Europe it is 18.1%, but in Poland it is only 2% (0.6 for 1 million from living donors). The number of patients awaiting on kidney transplantation (KTx) is increasing, and the number of deceased donors is constantly at a low level. This disturbing situation should motivate the entire interdisciplinary health team to seek new solutions.

In the study the investigators are examining how medical students and medical staff feel about the issues of organ transplantation, especially: organ shortage, cost of organ transplantation, definition of brain death.

The investigators are planning to focus on the following specific questions:

What is the level of knowledge about organ donation among participants? What are the sociodemographic, sociocultural and socioeconomic characteristics of listed as an Organ Donor and non-listed as an Organ Donor among medical staff and medical students? Evidence on the role of financial and other incentives in eliciting organ donation.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Give voluntary consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not meet the above criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of participants who approve prosocial motivation to organ donation
timeFrame: 2 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Results of the Medical Knowledge Tool (Questionnaire)
timeFrame: 2 months
measure: Results of the Practice Tool (Questionnaire)
timeFrame: 2 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Warsaw
country: Poland
facility: International Institute of Rescue Research and Education
state: Masovia
city: Warsaw
country: Poland
facility: International Institute of Rescue Research and Education
Study officials:
affiliation: National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
name: Lukasz Szarpak
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Medical University of Warsaw
name: Lukasz Czyżewski
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
name: Andrzej Kurowski
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Czyzewski L, Wyzgal J. The adequacy of transplantation education in the ESRD population in Poland. Ann Transplant. 2012 Apr-Jun;17(2):62-73. doi: 10.12659/aot.883224.